Description

FRITWELL NORTH STREET
SP52NW (South side)
3/39 Court Farmhouse and Court
26/11/51 Farmhouse Flat
(Formerly listed as Court
Farmhouse and farm building
abutting house)
GV II

Farmhouse. Early/mid C17, re-modelled and extended c.1800. Limestone rubble,
partly squared and coursed, with ashlar dressings; Welsh-slate roof with brick
stacks, T-plan. 2 storeys plus attic, and one storey plus attic. Road front has
the end of the main range projecting on the left of the 2-window wing, both
parts with shallow-pitched roofs and boxed eaves. The wing has 16-pane sashes
and projecting keyblocks; the hipped-roofed projection has 2 similar but blind
first-floor windows, plus a 2-light stone-mullioned window with label at ground
floor, and its right return wall contains the entrance (now with the 6-panel
double doors in a C20 porch) below a further sash window. The rear of the wing
is in 2 sections, with renewed sashes plus a small apsidal C19 conservatory. The
left side of the main range is in several builds with a central gable, and has 2
sashes plus some earlier windows. A lower range extending from the rear of the
main range, now partly a flat, has 2 ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned windows with
labels: one of 3 lights; the other of 2. Interior: Drawing room has heavy
plaster cornices and an open fireplace with a massive chamfered cambered
bressumer; 2-storey stair hall of c.1800 has a sweeping stair, 6-panel doors
(one with an ornamental overlight) and has a round-headed display niche with
serpentine shelves; another earlier alcove has a shell head, serpentine shelves
and carved scroll brackets; C17 winder stairs rise to attics; rear wing has a
heavy chamfered doorframe, a stop-chamfered bean, and a large open fireplace
with stop-chamfered bressumer and bread oven.
(VCH: Oxfordshire, Vol VI, p136)

Listing NGR: SP5246529432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26556892

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