Adderbury Grounds Farmhouse And Attached Barn Range

Adderbury Grounds Farmhouse and the attached barn range are a farmhouse and farm buildings dating from the early 18th century, with possible earlier elements, and alterations along with barn additions from the mid-18th century. The structure is built of coursed squared marl stone, featuring some ashlar and brick dressings, as well as wooden lintels. The roofs are made of concrete plain tiles, Welsh slate, and some Stonesfield slate, with rebuilt brick gable stacks. The farmhouse has a central-stair plan with two rear wings, standing two storeys plus an attic, and has a symmetrical three-window front. This front features wooden lintels, a toothed brick eaves course, 4-pane 19th-century sash windows, and a central door with an ornamental 18th-century overlight. The steep-pitched roof includes three hipped roof dormers and gable parapets with projecting moulded kneelers. The cellar has a stone-mullioned window with a label.

The two adjacent lower rear wings may be earlier and feature stone-mullioned windows with labels, most of which have been altered to accommodate casements. A third wing, added around 1910 in a similar style, provides an additional parapetted gable. To the left of the house, there is a short stable range from the late 18th or early 19th century, constructed of stone and Welsh slate, which connects to a long mid-18th-century range at right angles. This range consists of a stable bay that projects to the rear and two five-bay barns. The stable has a gable that matches and aligns with those at the rear of the house. The barns feature toothed brick eaves courses and opposed full-height central doors with irregular brick quoins. Their steep-pitched roofs are covered with concrete plain tiles and corrugated asbestos, and they also have gable parapets with projecting kneelers.

Inside the house, there are chamfered beams and an oak stair from around 1800 with stick balusters and a turned newel. The upper barn is lined with brick and has a through-purlin roof, while the lower barn, likely slightly later, features a butt-purlin roof with rafters joined to the upper purlins and at the apex, along with brick-lined walls that have ashlar at the lower level.