Timber Yard Cottages

Timber Yard Cottages is a row of cottages located on Church Street in Shellingford, dating from around 1560 to 1570. The cottages are constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings and feature a stone slate roof with rendered concrete stacks. The original layout of the cottages is not clear, but they are designed in a domestic Tudor style and consist of two storeys with a nine-window range.

The front of the cottages has two square-headed doorways, each with splayed architraves, label moulds, and 20th-century plank doors, along with a central 20th-century inserted doorway. The ground floor includes two-light stone mullioned windows that are cavetto-moulded with arched heads and label moulds, while the first floor features one-and two-light stone mullioned cavetto-moulded windows. The roof is gabled with gable end stacks.

At the rear right, there is one two-light stone mullioned cavetto-moulded window with arched heads and a label mould, and at the first floor level, there are two two-light and three one-light stone mullioned and chamfered windows; other windows at the rear are late 20th-century but designed in a similar style. The rear left side has two early 16th-century buttresses.

Inside, the cottages were remodelled into three separate units around 1973. Some 18th-century four-panelled doors remain, and the roof features a collar truss and queen-post structure with butt purlins.