South House Plus Attached Wall And 3 Gatepiers

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (South side) Adderbury East 7/118 South House plus attached wall House' plus attacned wall 08/12/55 and 3 gatepiers (Formerly listed as South House and two sets of old gatepiers)

GV II Substantial house. 1824, altered and extended late C19; wall and gatepiers late C17. Marlstone ashlar and coursed squared rubble; brick; Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar and brick stacks. Probable central-stair plan with rear wing. 3 storeys and 2 storeys. 3-window ashlar front of taller main range has 4-light sashes at ground and first floors, except for a late-C19 tripartite sash to left of the entrance, and has shorter 12-pane sashes at second floor; cornice and plain parapet are rendered and painted, and conceal a shallow-pitched roof with gable parapets bearing ashlar stacks. Late-C19 ashlar porch has an arched entrance and side sashes plus a stone entablature. Hipped-roofed brick rear wing has further sashes. Interior not inspected. Rubble wall, to right of the house, approximately 2 metres high with a 3-course triangular coping, is broken by a gateway with early-C19 iron gates and 2 large square limestone-ashlar piers with chamfered plinths, cornices and large ball finials, from which the wall extends approximately 30 metres to a further gatepier, part of the entrance to The Orchard. See also "Wall and gatepier approximately 15 metres north of The Orchard (not included)". Walls and gatepiers belonged to the large C16/C17 Mansion of the Cobb family, demolished 1815, a stone from which inscribed 1582 is re-set in one of the gatepiers. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p4i8; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, pll)

Listing NGR: SP4742135601