Mole End Cottage, Sunbeam Cottage, Jasmine Cottage And Rose Cottage

RADWAY TYSOE ROAD (South side)

SP3648 8/96 14/12/84

Mole End Cottage, Sunbeam Cottage, Jasmine Cottage and Rose Cottage (the latter was previously listed)

GV II

Row of 4 cottages. Late C17 and C18; Mole End cottage said to be dated 1682. Coursed ironstone. Thatched roofs; brick and stone and brick ridge and end stacks. Not of one build. Various plans. One storey and attic; 7-window range. Painted wood lintels, varied 3-light casements, and swept half-dormers throughout. Mole End Cottage on left is 2-unit plan; 2-window range. Central C20 thatched glazed porch with plank door. Ground floor windows have horizontal glazing bars. On first floor part-leaded casement on left, cross window with glazing bars on right. Remains of stone stack on right. Sunbeam and Jasmine Cottages each of one-unit plan; one-window range. Sunbeam Cottage has late C20 half-glazed door on left. Jasmine Cottage has C20 thatched glazed porch. Casements with horizontal glazing bars. Coped stone gable parapet between Jasmine and Rose Cottages. Rose Cottage on right was probably originally a detached 2-unit cottage, extended to 3-unit by linking range to Jasmine Cottage. 3-window range. Plank door and thatched open timber porch with cut-out trefoil. Left bay has 2 plank doors. Leaded casements. Ground floor windows have hood moulds, on right with return stops missing, and wood lintels inserted below. Stone and brick ridge stack. Interiors not inspected. (R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: 1963, pp.200,210).

Listing NGR: SP3711348191