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"Crossways- Watlington Road (PRN 9982). Semi-detached house
2 storey: extension to left hand built in 1920's for use as village
shop/Pcist Office walls, flint with brick dressings, originally
thatched. Ground floor sash windows came from Thame Park and
Haseley Manor.
Barn Knapp.Farm (PRN 9960). ' 7 bay brick base, weather-.
boarded barn. .Fine contemporary iron,.hinges on boarded barn doors.
Noi. 12-26 Weston Road (PRN 9986):. z Similar rows of 4'
cottages, of similar design to those'of Nos. 3-9 High.Street.
2 storey, late 19th century. Each ia L snaped with projecting bay ,to
- front. Carved.stone plaque With initial W' probably indicates that
they were built for estate'Workers by 'major Timothy White C. 1890.
.(y). Manor Barn (pRN 9971).8 bays in -ail, flint and brick,
Blocked windOws, now serves as' cattle
Early 18th_century in -date:
shed.
(z) Moor Court Cottage (PRN 9961). 2 Storeyed detached -cottages
of flint with'brick. Hipped roof, tiled With cedar shingles.-
Weatherboarded lean-to extension At each end. Late 18th century
in date..
Earthworks
The most interesting earthwork, is the trapeZoidal shaped moat
which is'medieval and Surrounds Moor Court.i(PRN 4060.- A further.,
area,of earthworks is in,the field north of the churCh and consists of a
hOilow,way .(a Continuation 'of ChurChLane) and 7 platforms' surrounded
by ditches, enclosed by aA.ong boundary mound (PRN 4112): A further
series of less well defined humps and bumps; the remains of buildings
existing in the 18th century but now vanished along the-north eastern
side of Weitoh Road. The:.vastest earthwork is of course the embankment
of the M40: but there is also the overgrown track of.the'dismantled.
railway.
Recommendations
if proposals are made in the future to conserve whatjs histbrically
interesting in Lewknor the f011Owing pointa might be'oorne in mind::
(1). Tlie present village plan hai evolved over a thoûsand,years
and the centre of gravity has shifted (see plan elements). The area
north of the church should not.be developed without archaeological
examinatioh-of the earthworks.
(2) Already the village has largely lost the institutions which
served its self sufficient life. Included among these were' the
smithy (PRN 4061), the butcher's, shop.(PEN 9985) and'two otner
shops .(PRN 9982 and PRN 9976)1 and a public house (The Fox,
P.M 9976) Its pre6ent comparative'spaciousness is caûsed by the
fact that a number of the buildings are substantial farms (PRNs 4040,
9979, 9959, 9960, 9971, 4021, 9973). There will doubtless be pressures
to infill here in the future. It is noped that sucn developments as
Rectory Court - set back in an unseemly fashion from the village street
will be resisted.
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