The Clappers (Alias Prospect Villa) Including Single Bay Extension To South

The Clappers, also known as Prospect Villa, is a late 17th-century farmhouse located on Church Lane in Charlbury. The building features coursed squared rubble walls, timber lintels, and a stone slate roof. It stands two storeys high with an attic and has a symmetrical two-window range. The front entrance includes a 19th-century half-glazed door set beneath a gabled porch, with an earlier blocked door at the left end. The ground and first-floor windows are sashes with glazing bars, positioned under ovolo moulded lintels. There are also sashes with glazing bars and horns in two gabled half-dormers.

The house has two end chimneys, which were rebuilt in the 20th century. At the rear, there is a projecting gabled tower that contains an original timber newel stair and remnants of a former window. Inside, the first floor features stop-chamfered ceiling beams, some of which have carved strips from barge boards added in the 20th century. The left ground-floor room includes a fireplace with a stop-chamfered bressumer, a bread oven, and 20th-century infill. The right room has a stone fireplace dating from the 17th or 18th century, with a 20th-century mantelpiece and infill. To the right of the main building, there is a two-storey extension that has a round-headed passage arch beneath one first-floor sash window and one gabled dormer.