FACTORY BUILDING OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55

55, WEST END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213992
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: FACTORY BUILDING OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55
Statutory Address:: 55, WEST END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1213992
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 03-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: FACTORY BUILDING OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55
Statutory Address 1:: 55, WEST END
Statutory Address 2:: FACTORY BUILDING, WEST END
Statutory Address 3:: OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55, WEST END

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 55, WEST END
Statutory Address:: FACTORY BUILDING, WEST END
Statutory Address:: OUTBUILDING ATTACHED TO NUMBER 55, WEST END

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Witney
National Grid Reference:: SP3569410503

Details

WITNEY WEST END SP3510, SP3510SE (South side) 5/254, 9/254 No.55 and attached outbuilding 9/09/87 and factory building (Formerly listed as Nos.55 and 57) GV II

House, made into blanket-making factory in early C19 and now offices and store. Late C17/early C18, with later alterations. Coursed limestone rubble; C19 stucco front. Gabled stone slate roof; ridge stack of stone finished in brick. L-plan with rear left wing. 2 storeys; 5-window range. Timber lintel over through-entry with C19 plank doors to right. C20 windows except late C17/early C18 wood-mullioned and transomed cross windows to right of first floor (3) and to left of ground floor (2). Gabled hoist opening has plank door and wood jib-crane. Two late C17 and early C18 two-storey ranges to rear left, of similar materials, with early C19 keyed brick segmental arches over openings and two C18 gabled roof dormers. Interior: stop-chamfered and chamfered beams. Collar-truss roof with butt purlins, and butt-purlin roof to rear left. Subsidiary features: late C17/early C18 outbuilding to rear left, of similar materials: L-plan, of 2 storeys; plank door beneath stone steps to plank loft door; interior has C19 cobbled runway, chamfered beams and C17 collar truss to rear. Early C19 factory further to rear, of squared and coursed limestone with gabled Welsh-slate roof. 3-storey, 4-window range. Keyed brick segmental arches, segmental stone arches and attic timber lintels over casement windows; plank loft doors to first floor and attic, the latter with iron jib-crane. Interior; chamfered beams, quarter-turn stairs and king-post roof. Formerly a blanket-making factory owned by the Early family. (See 1876 O.S, map).

Listing NGR: SP3569410503

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.