Chestnut Close

SHIPTON-UNDER-WYCHWOOD ASCOTT ROAD SP 21 NE (south side) 3/45 - Chestnut Close - II Small country house. Dated "H/SF/1913". Coursed rubble with freestone quoins and dressings, Cotswold stone roofs, coped verges with cut finials. Roughly H-plan, Cotswold style with mullion windows, drips and leaded casesments. Large grouped ashlar stacks; central gable with cut finial and short sections of crenellated parapet. Two storeys and attics, symmetrical fenestration basically 1:3:1 bays. Three single-lights on first floor to projecting side gables over one 3-light window on ground floor. Centre part has 2-light windows and central gable with ashlar canted first floor oriel and lozenge datestone. Below is Tudor arch moulded doorway with battered door and beaten brass Art Nouveau style handle inside and stone bracketed open pediment hood which supports the oriel. Dated lead rainwater heads. Regular first floor flower balconies of inferior design. The south front is more Cotswold manor house-like with 3 gables, centre recess, mullion windows of 2, 3 and 4-lights, angled bays to outer gables.

Listing NGR: SP2967917935