Shoreston Cottage And Midcote With Linking Walls And Outhouse

Shoreston Cottage and Midcote are two cottages linked by walls and an outbuilding, built in 1913 by Robert Mauchlen for Sir Stephen Runciman. The cottages are constructed of random rubble, with a finely dressed front face, and have pantiled roofs. They are designed in the Arts and Crafts style.

Shoreston Cottage, to the left, has four bays. It has a boarded and battened door in the third bay, sheltered by a stone hood and brackets. The left three bays are single-storey and have a catslide roof. The right bay is two-storey. The windows are 16- and 24-pane casements. The roof on the left is hipped and features one hipped dormer on the front and one on the hip to the left. There are two corniced ridge stacks.

Midcote is to the right and has three bays with a similar door and windows. It is topped with a gabled roof and a central corniced ridge stack, with windows on the gable ends.

Between the cottages is an outbuilding that originally housed toilets and coal storage. It is partially screened by a linking wall, which is pierced by two round-headed arches with imposts and keystones. A small four-pane window in the outbuilding’s gable is set within a round-headed recess with a keystone.

The cottages and linking walls form a picturesque group with neighboring houses.