12, Old Road

GREAT TEW OLD ROAD SP3929 (East side) 10/60 No.12 27/08/56 (Formerly listed as Cottage No.12)

GV II

House. C17, re-modelled early C19. Coursed squared marlstone with some ashlar dressings; thatch roof with ashlar ridge stack. 3-unit plan. 2 storeys and one storey plus attic. Front is divided by 2 early C19 ashlar buttresses with moulded plinths and steep gabled heads; a continuous drip mould passes around them and across the centre and left bays, rising over the stone sundial in the latter, and formerly also in the centre over a datestone inscribed 1636 and a shield of arms, now re-set in the left end wall and replaced by a re-used moulded stone window with label. At first floor are two 3-light casements in the centre bay and a 2-light casement to right, all with C19 chamfered stone surrounds and labels. End wall of lower hipped-roofed left bay has two 2-light stone-mullioned windows with labels, one in a dormer gable, plus a C19 chamfered basket-arched doorway below a label with carved lozenge stops. Rear has a 3-light mullioned window and a stepped stair projection. Interior not inspected. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, p.628).

Listing NGR: SP3964829173