Inglenook

RAMSDEN WILCOTE LANE SP3515 (North-west side) 18/114 Inglenook 10/06/77

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House. Dated 1907, by Levi Dore, incorporating a probably C17 core. Cement rendered with incised rustication, over stone. Slate roof. Three-unit plan. Two storeys. Modillion eaves cornice and moulded gutter, low parapeted gable ends with stone copings and rendered integral end stacks with modillion cornices and weatherings. Three bays, the left-hand one canted forwards; 2-light wooden casements with bracketed panelled cills and flanking tapered fluted pilasters with scrolled brackets; triangular pediments to ground-floor windows with copings and globe finials. Oval datestones in outer gables and oval name-stone in centrai gable. Central C20 six-panelled door. Three-bay casement-rendered porch consisting of square piers, fluted pilasters with bases, fluted capitals and scrolled brackets, elliptical arches with panelled intrados and spandrels, moulded cornice and balustrade with drop balusters, panelled square dies with pear-shaped finials and moulded rail. Richly-ornamented plaster vault within with rope-moulded ribs, and rose trails over ribs arches and spandrels; encaustic tile floor. Levi Dore was one of two brothers, local builders and craftsmen. Levi was the architect of the village war memorial (q.v.) and is said (occupier of Inglenook - March 1987) to have worked on the restoration of Burford Priory. The cant of the left-hand bay of Inglenook is evidence of the earlier core of the building, said to have been 2 cottages. The entrance formerly consisted of 2 separate doors flanking a central window, replaced by the present arrangement in the late C20.

Listing NGR: SP3568715280