Inglenook

Inglenook is a house dated 1907, designed by Levi Dore, and incorporates a likely 17th-century core. The building features a cement-rendered exterior with incised rustication over stone and has a slate roof. It has a three-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The eaves are adorned with a modillion cornice and a moulded gutter, while the low parapeted gable ends have stone copings and rendered integral end stacks with modillion cornices and weatherings.

The façade consists of three bays, with the left-hand bay canted forward. It has 2-light wooden casements that feature bracketed panelled cills and flanking tapered fluted pilasters with scrolled brackets. The ground-floor windows are topped with triangular pediments that have copings and globe finials. Oval datestones are present in the outer gables, along with an oval name-stone in the central gable. The entrance features a central 20th-century six-panelled door.

A three-bay casement-rendered porch is supported by square piers and fluted pilasters with bases and capitals, along with scrolled brackets. The porch has elliptical arches with panelled intrados and spandrels, a moulded cornice, and a balustrade with drop balusters. The panelled square dies have pear-shaped finials and a moulded rail. Inside, there is a richly-ornamented plaster vault with rope-moulded ribs and rose trails over the rib arches and spandrels, as well as an encaustic tile floor.

Levi Dore, who was one of two local builder brothers, also designed the village war memorial and is said to have worked on the restoration of Burford Priory. The cant of the left-hand bay indicates the earlier core of the building, which is believed to have been two cottages. The entrance originally had two separate doors flanking a central window, which was replaced by the current arrangement in the late 20th century.