Dixcote

Dixcote is a house built in 1897 by architect C F A Voysey and executed by Walter Cave. It is a broad, asymmetrical two-storey structure with seven bays, featuring roughcast walls, Ham Hill stone dressings, and a tiled roof. The casement windows are adorned with stone mullions and leaded lights.

On the ground floor, the openings from left to right include a segmental carriage arch with a band of small casements above, framed by full-height buttresses; a triple casement and a double casement surrounding a plain door; a triple casement; a quadruple casement; a prominent Doric porch with canted returns; and a quintuple casement.

A stone string links the heads of the windows. On the first floor, to the right of the carriage arch, the second and third bays feature a triple casement and a double casement, while two double casements are linked by a string at the head and set between twin gables. The fourth, fifth, and sixth bays have triple casements beneath a deep cornice that wraps around the piers of the fifth bay. The casements in the fifth and sixth bays are double-height, with a lower tier of glazing that transforms the first-floor cill band into a transom. The seventh bay contains a triple casement and its cornice appears as a half-dormer between hipped eaves roofs supported by iron stays. The chimney stacks have cornices, with the left-hand stack displaying a characteristic battered form.