Ascott Park Cottage And Attached Walls

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/10/2016

SU 69 NW, 6/112

STADHAMPTON, B480 (South side), Ascott, Ascott Park Cottage and attached walls

(Formerly listed as: Ascott Park Farmhouse and attached walls)

(Previously listed as: Ascott Park Farmhouse)

18/07/63

GV

II

Farmhouse. Probably C16, much altered. Rendered timber framing, brick, and limestone rubble; plain-tile roof with brick gable stacks. T-plan. 2 storeys. Front has, to right, a Tudor-arched stone doorway, with recessed spandrels and a central keyblock, retaining original studded plank door; central 3-light casement with 2-light casement above; to left, the projecting gable wall of the cross wing is rubble at ground floor, with some rendered timber framing above, and has a projecting chimney. A post survives in the angle of the projecting wing. To extreme right, in an outbuilding, are fragments of further bays of the original house, of which the massive open fireplace survives on the right gable wall of the existing house. Rear has further casements and the first floor of the cross wing is in rendered timber framing. Interior not inspected, but noted as containing panelling. Brick garden walls, to north-east are in English bond and have chamfered plinth and lengths of 2-course stone coping with apex roll. Probably an ancillary building of the destroyed Ascott House.

(Ascott Park is included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II; V,C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. VII, p.121; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.776).

Listing NGR: SU6117098176