Stable Court, Cottage Workshop And Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres South East Of Great Tew House Together With Attached Walls And Piers

GREAT TEW NEW ROAD SP3929 (East side) 10/37 Stable court, cottage, work- 27/08/56 shop and dovecote approx. 60m SE of Great Tew House together with attached walls and piers (Formerly listed as Great Tew Park together with dovecote, Stable quadrangle with gateway and garden walls) GV II

Stable court. c.1700, restored and extended early C19. Marlstone ashlar with some limestone dressings; Welsh-slate roofs. Court surrounds 3 sides of a quadrangle. 2 storeys Symmetrical south front, with plinth and limestone storey band, has in the central bay, which breaks forward slightly under a gable, a tall archway with double-stepped keyblock below a clock; to right and left are limestone-architraved doorways with double-stepped keyblocks linked to the storeyband, flanked by leaded stone mullioned-and-transomed windows; above each door is a 2-light mullioned window. Outer bays break forward under hipped roofs and contain similar doorways and windows. Roofs have a heavy wooden modillion cornice,m from left of south front a stone-coped wall with intermediate panelled piers projects forward and connects with gatepiers and gates approximately 80 metres south-east of Great Tew House (q.v.). From right of south front a similar wall projects forward to another pier, the pair of gatepier and wall approximately 83 metres south-east of Great Tew House (q.v.). South front returns on left to a gable and on right to an early/mid C19 cottage and parallel rear coach-house range. The cottage is of 2 storeys and has a 2-window range of stone mullion windows with hood moulds. Central doorway with four-centred arch and blind window above. Coach-house has a pair of axially placed arched double-doored entrances with keyblocks and imposts. Behind the coach-house is an early C19 laundry, now estate workshop, also with stone mullion windows. Linked to the left end of the south range is an octagonal 2-storey dovecote, in similar style, with narrow windows and an octagonal pyramid roof with one ogee-roofed glover and 2 roof dormers. Interior of dovecote not inspected but stables have C19 stalls and ceiling beams. Sane earlier roof timbers. Coach-house has a C19 first floor. (VCH: Oxfordshire: Vol VI: p227; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p627; C. Hussey, "Great Tew, Oxfordshire I"; Country Life, July 22, 1949)

Listing NGR: SP3980929025