Vine Cottage

OFFLEY HIGH STREET TL 1427 (East side) Great Offley

12/89 No. 31 27.5.68 (Vine Cottage)

GV II

House. C17 or earlier, brick cased in C18, N extension late C19. Timber frame now cased in red brick in Flemish-bond chequered with blue headers. N extension and rear wall roughcast with applied half timbering. N gable painted brick. Steep old red tile roofs. A 2-storeys, attics and cellar house on street front facing W next Court House (q.v.) Central entrance, end chimneys plan with rear outshut under catslide roof with 2 small gabled dormers at rear eaves. Symmetrical front has 2 windows to each floor, stucco plinth, plat-band, plastered central recess with name painted, above a gabled brick porch with 6-panels door. Segmental arches to all windows and to recess. 2-lights small-panes 1st floor windows, 3-lights to ground floor, 2-light gabled dormer to N part of front. N internal gable chimney has ovolo-moulded base to shaft. S gable internal chimney rises through rear slope of roof. 2-storeys N extension set back from front, with N gable chimney slightly projecting and large windows to rear. Interior has exposed timber framing.

Listing NGR: TL1433227013