The Plough

SP4735 ADDERBURY EAST END AYNHO ROAD 7/10000 The Plough

II Public house. Circa mid to late C17, extended in circa C18 and with C20 alterations and extensions. Ironstone rubble with dressed quoins. Thatched roofs with gabled ends. Gable-end stacks with brick shafts. PLAN: 2-room plan house on right with central entrance, now one large room; right-hand room heated from a large gable-end fireplace with winder stair to side; the left room's gable-end fireplace blocked. Circa C18 one-room plan wing behind right-hand room and barn attached to left end, now part of public house accommodation. C20 single-storey extensions at rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic house on right, asymmetrical 2-window north front. C20 2-light casements on 1st floor with glazing bars and wooden lintels; canted bays on the ground floor also with glazing bars and C20 glazed porch between. Lower barn on left with similar bay on right, central doorway and 2-light casement on left. At rear, gable-ended wing on left with thatched roof and single-storey C20 extensions. INTERIOR: right-hand room has large stone fireplace with chamfered timber lintel with notched cyma stops and winder stairs to side. Right and left rooms have chamfered axial beams with cyma stops and slightly chamfered joists; now one room. Rear right-hand room has unchamfered joists exposed. Right-hand chamber has chamfered axial beam with notched cyma stops, left chamber's axial beam has run-out stops. Fielded 2-panel doors. Attic chamber ceiled but 2 tiers of large side purlins are exposed.

Listing NGR: SP4782535795