Rawlings House And Attached Wall

Rawlings House and the attached wall is a Grade II listed building located in Adderbury, dating back to 1589, originally built for Reverend Christopher Rawlins. It has been extended and likely restored in 1847. The structure is made of coursed squared marlstone with ashlar dressings and features a Stonesfield-slate roof with both ashlar and brick stacks. The building has a two-unit plan plus an extended schoolroom and stands two storeys high with an attic.

The front of the house has three bays on the right, featuring a central doorway with a chamfered stone surround, flanked by windows with four and three lights. The first floor has windows with three, two, and three lights, all of which have hollow-chamfered stone mullions, labels, and leaded glazing. The schoolroom section includes a very tall four-light stone-mullioned window and an additional chamfered stone doorway. An added bay on the left has a matching window, as does the gable wall, continuing the chamfered plinth. The right gable wall has aligned mullioned windows with four, three, and two lights. The steep-pitched roof features gable parapets and a hipped two-light leaded roof dormer, along with two large lateral stacks at the rear and a small stack on the left gable.

There is a single-storey subsidiary range that extends in an L shape from the junction of the buildings, which includes a stone-mullioned window with two arched lights and a three-light mullioned window that may have been re-used. A lintel above the main door notes the foundation year of 1589, which is also recorded on a later inscription on the gable wall.

Inside, the building features a wide Tudor-arched chamfered stone fireplace, a large inglenook fireplace with a chamfered bressumer, and stop-chamfered cross beams and inner lintels. The schoolroom section has stop-chamfered tie beams with 19th-century arched braces rising from moulded corbels. The attached wall, approximately 2.3 meters high with a three-course triangular coping, extends about 10 meters eastward from the right gable wall and contains a Tudor-arched chamfered stone doorway.