Greystone Stores

SP 6100 LITTLE MILTON HIGH STREET (East side) 13/93 Greystone Stores 18/07/63 (Formerly listed as Greystone Stores and Barn) GV II

House, now shop and dwelling. Early C17. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; thatched roof with brick stacks. 2 storeys plus attics. 3-window front with, at first floor, stone-mullioned windows of 3, 2 and 3 lights under cyma-moulded labels; centre window now blocked. Ground floor openings altered, probably in C19, with painted key-stone arches and quoins; shop window to left of central door but to right the casement window retains jambs from a former 3-light mullioned window. Central stack has 3 diagonal brick shafts on a stone base. Gable walls have 3-light stone-mullioned windows to all 3 floors, now mostly blocked or hidden by the buttress to right. Further similar windows to rear. Interior: Cellar to right has chamfered and stopped beams supported on a central post and a 3-light stone-mullioned window, now below ground level. Beams to main rooms are heavily-moulded and one has a recessed soffit. Dog-leg stair, flanking the massive stack, survives only from first floor to attics. 3-bay roof to main range has 2 rows of butt purlins, and right truss has arched struts rising from the collar. Former barn to rear almost totally destroyed by fire. (V.C.H. Oxfordshire VII, p.212; Oxoniensia Vol 25, pp. 57-8; Buildings of England, Oxfordshire, p.688)

Listing NGR: SP6192500856