Quarry House, Barn, Sheltersheds And Attached Walls

GREAT TEW B4022 SP32NE (West side) 5/26 Quarry House, barn, sheltersheds and attached walls GV II Cottage and barn plus shelter sheds. c.1830. Coursed squared marlstone with marlstone- and limestone-ashlar dressings; Stonesfield-slate roofs with ashlar gable stack. Main range has 3-bay barn with central porch plus single-bay double-depth cottage. Porch has marlstone-ashlar buttresses and a weatherboarded gable; outer bays have ogee-headed slits. Cottage to left has a pair of 2-light stone-mullioned windows above a 3-light mullioned window, all with limestone dressings and labels. Left gable wall has a segmental-arched chamfered-stone doorway and is flanked by short buttresses with sloping weatherings. Roof has gable parapets with moulded kneelers and has a stack to left. Opposed barn doors to rear. Shelter sheds, running 6 bays from rear and returning 5 bays to right have circular stone piers with caps and bases. Interiors not inspected. Attached farmyard wall, approx. 1.5m. high, continues to right fron rear range, with a 2-course triangular coping, and returns along right side of yard, with a flat coping, curving outwards to the central gate. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.227).

Listing NGR: SP3898129524