Adderbury Grounds Farmhouse And Attached Barn Range

SP43SE ADDERBURY 3/1 Adderbury Grounds Farmhouse and attached barn range

II Farmhouse and farmbuildings. Early C18, possibly partly earlier, altered and barns added mid C18. Coursed squared marl stone with some ashlar and brick dressings and some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile, Welsh-slate and some Stonesfield-slate roofs with rebuilt brick gable stacks. Central-stair plan with 2 rear wings. 2 storeys plus attic and 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-window front, with wooden lintels and a toothed brick eaves course, has 4-pane C19 sashes and a central door with ornamental C18 overlight. Steep-pitched roof has 3 hipped roof dormers and gable parapets with projecting moulded kneelers, Cellar has a stone-mullioned window with label. 2 adjacent lower rear wings may be earlier, and they have stone-mullioned windows with labels, all except one altered to take casements. A third wing, added c.1910 in similar style, provides a further parapetted gable. To left of the house, a short late-C18/early-C19 stable range in stone and Welsh slate links to a long mid-C18 range at right angles, consisting of a stable bay, projecting to rear, and two 5-bay barns. Stable has a gable matching and in line with those at rear of house; barns have toothed brick eaves courses and opposed full-height central doors with irregular brick quoins. Steep-pitched roofs of concrete plain tiles and corrugated asbestos have gable parapets with projecting kneelers. Interiors: house has chamfered beams, and an oak stair of c.1800 with stick balusters and a turned newel. Upper barn is brick lined and has a through-purlin roof; lower barn (probably slightly later) has a butt-purlin roof complete with rafters jointed to the upper purlins and at the apex, and has brick-lined walls with ashlar at low level,

Listing NGR: SP4738333694