Oak Cottage

SP4631 DEDDINGTON HOPCRAFT LANE (East side) 8/179 Oak Cottage

GV II House. Probably C16 and early/mid C17. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with brick stacks. 2-unit plan plus cross-wing. 2 storeys. Taller main range, with 4-panel door to extreme left, has 2 wood-mullioned windows at first floor with leaded glazing: of 3 lights with splayed mullions and of 4 lights with ovolo mullions; a blocked window to left of centre was probably an insertion. At ground floor is a 4-light window with ovolo mullions and a 3-light C18 casement. Steep-pitched roof has stacks to left of each bay. Gable end of cross-wing has 2 renewed windows and a 2-light C18 casement. Right side wall has leaded C18 casements, and further wood-mullioned windows survive to rear of main range. Interior: main range has a restored central inglenook fireplace, stop-chamfered and moulded joists spanning between heavy stop-chamfered crossbeams, intersecting stop-chamfered beams at first floor, and a butt-purlin roof. Cross-wing has heavy joists and crossbeam, plus a small cruck truss (possibly housed into the crossbeam) of which one blade has been partly removed. The cruck principals are crossed at the apex.

Listing NGR: SP4687031504