Court Cottage, Baldon House Cottage And Outbuilding

SU5699 MARSH BALDON BALDON LANE (South side) 10/10 Court Cottage, Baldon House Cottage and outbuilding

GV II

2 houses and outbuilding. C17 and early C18. Timber framing with brick infill; coursed limestone rubble with brick dressings; old plain-tile roof with brick stacks. L-shaped range including 2 lobby-entry plans. 2 storeys. Court Cottage, projecting to left, is timber framed on a high rubble plinth. Present entrance front facing left has at first floor C20 casements, a blocked 2-light window and a triangular-headed recess containing the date 1608 (or 1668). Original front, facing right, has 3 blocked windows at first floor plus a similar recess, and has a blocked entrance in line with the large stack which has decorative side strips. Main range incorporates, in the centre, the 2-window front of Baldon House Cottage, in coursed rubble with brick dressings; ground-floor casements and central doorway have segmented arches, and the date stone above the door is inscribed "1719/L/IE". Linking to Court Cottage is a rubble bay with later windows; to right is an outbuilding which has light timber-framing at first floor and is probably C19. Front gable of Court Cottage is half-hipped. Interiors not inspected. Part of the subsidiary buildings to Baldon House (q.v.). (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. V, p.32)

Listing NGR: SU5610299051