Loggia Approximately 15 Metres North West Of Adderbury House

SP4735 ADDERBURY THE GREEN (East side) Adderbury East 7/114 Loggia approx. 15m NW of 08/12/55 Adderbury House (Formerly listed as Adderbury House with outbuildings and gateway)

GV II Loggia, formerly part of mansion. Probably 1731 by Roger Morris for Duke of Argyll. Marlstone ashlar. Baroque style. Loggia is in the form of a 9-bay open arcade with plinths, square imposts and round arches; a solid parapet with a moulded coping rises from a plain band and terminates at full-height projecting rusticated quoin strips. To left of the arcade is a later small ashlar pavilion with a segmental-arched doorway. Plinth and impost band are carried around inner walls of arcade and link with 3 doorways (in the end walls and in the centre of the rear wall) which have Gibbsian surrounds with triple-stepped keyblocks, the rear door having the same details externally. The loggia was formerly linked to Adderbury House (q.v.) and formed the left side of the entrance court, being matched by a similar on the south, (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp416-18; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, pp7-9; Country Life 1949 Vol 105, pp30-32)

Listing NGR: SP4759035647