Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage And Higleys Cottage

ENSTONE B4030 SP32SE (South side) Church Enstone 8/29 Tulip Cottage, Manor Cottage and Higleys Cottage

GV II

3 small houses, probably formerly one or 2 dwellings. C17, C19 and C20. Limestone rubble with wooden lintels; Stonesfield-slate and concrete plain-tile roofs with rubble stacks. L-shaped range. 2 storeys plus attics. Tulip Cottage, in range projecting towards road, has a rectangular stair projection with a small leaded casement. Manor Cottage, in the angle of,the ranges, has renewed casements but retains an old plank door under a stone-slated canopy. Higley's Cottage, in the right half of the rear range, has a small-pane casement and a doorway, both in the lower section to right of the stack; a further single-storey section on the end of, the range is probably C19, and is built as a grotto with an archway (now glazed) and several recesses. Steep-pitched roofs to both ranges have a total of 4 stacks. C19 and C20 extensions project to left of front range. Interiors: stop-chamfered beans; open fireplaces. Noted as formerly having the date 1668 on a door. The vermiculated stonework of the grotto may have been taken from Thomas Bushell's famous waterworks at Neat Enstone.

Listing NGR: SP3801324988