Proffitt'S House

HORNTON MILLER'S LANE SP3845 (East side) aids) 16/125 Proffitt's House 08/12/55

GV II*

House and cottage now one dwelling. Mid C17. Squared, coursed ironstone. Steeply pitched thatched roof. Stone-coped gable on right without kneeler. Base for ball finial. Altered stone end stack with chamfered case and similar ridge stacks one with renewed blue brick shaft. 3-unit plan and single-unit plan. Single storey plus attic throughout, 4-window attic range. Common entrance passage shared by the two dwellings has a 6-panelled door with moulded wood surround and wood lintel. To left two 4-light and a 7-light stone mullioned window. To right a 4-light stone mullioned window. Hood moulds with label stops. Attic has an eyebrow dormer with 3-light metal casement in stone surrounds and wood lintel. 2 half-dormers with 2- and 3-light metal casements with stone surrounds and wood lintels. Attic floor on right has a 3-light stone mullioned window. Wood-Jones suggests that the relationship of 2 buildings sharing a common entrance passage to a common yard shows a kinship siting for family groups; seperate dwellings being erected for members of the same family on the original family plot. Proffitt's House has 2 seperate fireplaces backing on to the common entrance passage. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England; Oxfordshire; 1974, p655; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol IX, p125; Wood-Jones, R.B., 1963, p253)

Listing NGR: SP3932645072