Description

RAMSDEN SP3515 18/113 Ramsden House

GV II

Parsonage, now house: 1862, by William Wilkinson. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Irregular plan with service wing projecting to north-west. In a Gothic Revival style. Two storeys and attic with service wing of one storey and attic. Chamfered plinth; parapeted gables with shaped kneelers and finials at apices. Various stone stacks with offsets and chamfered caps. Mainly chamfered shallow-arched glazing bar sashes with bar stops and stone arches. North-west (entrance) front: projecting wing to left with quatrefoil in apex of gable, single sash to attic and first floor, and paired ground-floor sashes with relieving arch. Narrow first-floor sash in right-hand return. Right-hand range with first-floor sash to left and staircase sash to right at mezzanine level with margin lights. Partly-enclosed stone porch in angle to left; one x 3 bays with chamfered square columns supporting entablature with blocking course, hipped roof, pair of doors each with 2 raised and fielded panels, and diamond-leaded side windows. Right-hand return front: gabled range set-back to left with quatrefoil in apex, paired first-floor sashes lighting staircase with margin lights and relieving arch, and half-glazed door to right with continuous lean-to porch. Projecting right-hand gable with small Gothic attic window and 2-storey square bay with chamfered string course, hipped roof, single first-floor sash and triple ground-floor sashes. Stack in valley to centre. South-east (garden) front: left-hand range with pair of first-floor square-headed sashes and ground-floor hipped-roofed square bay with cross window. Projecting centre gabled wing with quatrefoil in apex, attic sash and 2-storey square bay with chamfered string courses, coped parapet, 2 first-floor sashes and ground-floor sashes flanking central glazed door. External stone lateral stack to left, corbelled from first floor. Range of one storey and attic set back to right with gabled semi-dormer and ground floor bay with canted right-hand corner, string course and coped parapet, 3 square-headed sashes to left and 2 Gothic sashes to right; 4-panelled door to return with moulded flat hood on shaped stone brackets. Service wing to north-east. Ridge stack and end stack. South-west front with pair of gabled semi-dormers, 2 ground-floor sashes to right and 3-light wooden casement to left. Interior not inspected but noted as having 3-light staircase, with landings, closed string, turned balusters and square newel posts. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p734)

Listing NGR: SP3559715108

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)