Cross Hill House

SP4635 ADDERBURY CROSS HILL R0AD (North side) Adderbury West 6/16 Cross Hill House 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Cross Hill House, Bloxham Road)

GV II* Large house. Mid C18, probably incorporating earlier features; altered early C19. Marlstone ashlar with limestone dressings. Welsh-slate roofs with ashlar gable stacks. Double-depth plan. Mid-Georgian style. 3 storeys. Symmetrical 7-window front, with full-height clasping pilasters linked by storeybands and a parapet with moulded cornice, has 12-pane sashes with projecting keyblocks, and a central doorway with flanking pilasters supporting a scrolled pediment enclosing a cartouche. The front is considerably wider than the house and breaks back to double-gabled end walls, the right side with an early-C19 stone Tuscan porch. All gables have triple-shafted stacks with moulded plinths and caps. Rear has stone-mullioned cellar windows with labels. Interior not inspected but noted as having early moulded doorframes in the cellar, mid-C18 panelling in a first-floor room, and other fittings of c.1800, (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p419; VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol IX, p12; Country Life: Vol 105, 1949, p86)

Listing NGR: SP4663235522