Fair View

Fair View is a cottage dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 18th and 19th centuries, followed by further changes in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

The building is constructed of local Cotswold limestone rubble with dressed stone cills, quoins and an eaves cornice to the main façade. The roofs are covered in Welsh slate, and there are gable-end brick chimneystacks. Casements have metal frames, some set within timber units, positioned under timber lintels. The roof and floor structures use oak, elm and pine. The rear outshut is built of brick, partly rendered, with a Welsh slate roof and metal-framed windows.

The plan consists of two rooms on a single depth with a 19th-century rear outshut, arranged over two storeys plus an attic.

The main south-east elevation has three bays. The central entrance is flanked by stone walls forming a porch of 20th-century construction, with a part-glazed door in a stop-chamfered and nailed frame. The left and right bays contain three-over-three casements on each floor, with six-pane stair windows to the far left. A central rooflight lights the front roof slope, and coped verges sit at each gable end. The south-west flank has a ground-floor stair window on the right and an attic window with a stone architrave. The north-east flank has a similar attic window. The rear elevation is dominated by a full-width, single-storey outshut, which is partially glazed and rendered.

Inside, the ground floor is stone-flagged. A central brick partition divides it into two rooms. The left (south) room contains a modified inglenook with a bressumer in the end wall, with a timber winder stair to its left. Both ground-floor rooms have stone window seats to the front wall. The north room has an inserted brick chimneybreast, timber chimneypiece and cast-iron grate. A lateral beam with deep chamfers stopped at each end supports the first floor, passing through the brick partition. This beam is made in two sections joined by a scarf joint to the north of the partition. The joists are chamfered with run-out stops, though some have been replaced or modified.

The first floor has a central partition and two stop-chamfered beams supporting the attic floor. A 19th-century cast-iron grate sits in the fireplace of the south room. A timber winder stair rises to the attic floor, which has two rows of oak purlins and two oak trusses, one partially exposed. The roof structure uses pit-sawn principals and is pegged, consistent with an early 19th-century date. Evidence shows the purlins were previously plastered or limewashed. Each end of the attic floor and the stair area have openings with deep reveals and iron windows.

Historic fittings throughout include plank doors with bracing, panelled doors with iron hinges and fitments, and decorative window catches. A cast-iron stove is set in the south wall of the outshut. The outshut roof is supported by a king-post truss.