Red Brick Cottage

BRUERN SP 22 SE 7/7 Red Brick Cottage (formerly listed as part 27.8.57 of House and bridge in grounds of Bruern Abbey)

GV II*

House. Early C18 incorporating part of a medieval building; later additions and alterations, extended late C20, Chequered red brick (blue brick headers) with ashlar dressings to south and roughly coursed limestone rubble with red brick dressings to north; hipped stone slate roof. 2 storeys and attic with alternating angle quoins to south side. 5-window front; glazing bar sashes (some horned) to first floor and casements in imitation of sashes to ground floor, all windows with projecting keystones to stone lintels; 3 hip-roofed dormers with horned sashes in middle of roof slope. Central glazed door with head like those of windows. Rebuilt internal lateral stack to rear left corner. North side in 3 bays has sash window with thick glazing bars to left on first floor, C18 oculus to centre and horned glazing bar sashes to right. Half-glazed door to centre and leaded casements with wood lintels to either side on ground floor. 3 hip- roofed dormers like those on south. Interior: Only partial inspection possible at time of resurvey (August 1987). Left ground-floor room has plastered groined vault in 3 bays (possibly a former undercroft), which may be the only surviving fragment of the Cistercian abbey founded at Bruern in 1147 (q.v. under Bruern Abbey). Lower C20 ranges attached to left and right are not of special archi- tectural interest. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p500) (2448)

Listing NGR: SP2665420373