Woolstone Lodge And Adjoining Cottage

WOOLSTONE SU28NE 5/185 Wool stone Lodge and adjoining Cottage

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House. C17, reconstructed and extended c.1839. by Captain Butler, R.N. retd. L-plan. Roughcast walls; Welsh slate roof; brick stacks. Two storeys. Garden front: 3-window range; margin lights to sashes with hood moulds; dentilled eaves; gabled side wings with central raised parapet; ridge stacks. Right side 4-window range; near-centre door has 6-panelled and reeded architrave; sashes and lunettes to first floor, 2 sashes and 2 French windows with margin light sashes to ground floor. Interior: lime ash floor immitating stone flagging in hall, which retains elliptical arch to rear; original fireplace and staircase with cast-iron balusters; original fireplaces to other rooms; room to front right has Gothick style cast-iron fireplace and late Cl6 oak panellin, removed from an unknown house in Wales c.1870. Moulded and dentilled cornice, overmantle has 3 painted scenes from the Labours of Hercules. To rear right of Captain Butler's work of c.1830 are two late C17 to early C18 cottages: roughcast walling; slate roofing, brick ridge stack of c.1700. When Captain George Butler built Woolstone Lodge, he planted a small park opposite the garden front with elms, beeches etc., diverted the mill stream and built the Stag House and building housing the granary and stables attached to the house. (John Hadow, The Village of Woolstone, Oxford (privately printed) 1975. p23)

Listing NGR: SU2946087831