Callaly Cotttage

SP4635 ADDERBURY TANNERS LANE (South side) Adderbury West 6/105 Callaly Cottage 08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Callaby Cottage, White Hart Lane) GV II House. 1624 on datestone probably extended late C17/early C18 incorporating a C14 window; extended C20. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; thatch roof with brick stacks. 3-unit plan of 2 builds, plus subsidiary ranges. 2 storeys plus attic and one storey plus attic. Taller 2-window section, to right, has a chamfered plinth containing a cellar window and includes the datestone; 3-light C18 casements have leaded glazing. Lower bay to left includes a 6-panel door, a C20 bay window, and a half dormer with a 3-light casement. Roof continues over a subsidiary range to extreme left, with 2 double doors and a C20 dormer, partly rebuilt C20 and masking a former cart entry. Roof over higher bays has flanking stacks and a gable parapet to right. Right gable wall contains a small ancient wood-framed window, and has traces of a stone-mullioned window in the gable; left gable of higher section has a small 3-light wood-mullioned window with leaded glazing. Rear has further leaded casements. Facing into the cart entry is a small re-used early-C14 window of 2 cusped lights with Y-tracery and a hood mould. To rear of the lower bay is a small wing and a single-storey C20 extension. Interior: 1624 range has 2 crossbeams with wide stop-chamfers, and a fine early-C18 stone bolection-mould fireplace with a moulded stone mantelshelf; first floor has chamfered intersecting beams; winder stair from first floor to attics. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p419; R.B. Wood-Jones: Traditional Domestic Architecture in the Banbury Region: p291)

Listing NGR: SP4668435235