Stable Court, Cottage Workshop and Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres South East of Great Tew House Together with Attached Walls and Piers is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1956. Stable court, cottage, workshop, dovecote.
Stable Court, Cottage Workshop and Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres South East of Great Tew House Together with Attached Walls and Piers
- WRENN ID
- steep-spindle-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Banbury MP: Sean Woodcock (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1956
- Type
- Stable court, cottage, workshop, dovecote
- OS grid reference
- SP 398 290
- Coordinates
- 51.9583, -1.42207
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a stable court, cottage, workshop, and dovecote, constructed around 1700 and restored and extended in the early 19th century. The building is located approximately 60 metres southeast of Great Tew House.
The stable court forms three sides of a quadrangle. The south front is symmetrical and constructed of marlstone ashlar with limestone dressings, featuring a plinth and a limestone storey band. The central bay projects slightly and is topped with a gable containing a tall archway with a double-stepped keyblock below a clock. To the right and left of the archway are limestone-architraved doorways also with double-stepped keyblocks that link to the storey band, flanked by leaded stone mullioned-and-transomed windows. Above each doorway is a two-light mullioned window. The outer bays project under hipped roofs and contain similar doorways and windows. A heavy wooden modillion cornice runs along the roofline.
A stone-coped wall with intermediate panelled piers projects forward from the left side of the south front, connecting with gatepiers and gates approximately 80 metres southeast of Great Tew House. A similar wall projects from the right side, connecting with a gatepier and wall approximately 83 metres southeast of Great Tew House. The south front returns on the left to a gable and on the right to an early/mid-19th century cottage and a parallel rear coach-house range.
The cottage is two storeys high with a two-window range of stone mullioned windows with hood moulds. It features a central doorway with a four-centred arch and a blind window above. The coach-house has a pair of axially placed arched double-doored entrances with keyblocks and imposts. Behind the coach-house is an early 19th-century laundry, now an estate workshop, also featuring stone mullion windows.
A two-storey, octagonal dovecote, constructed in a similar style, is linked to the left end of the south range. It exhibits narrow windows and an octagonal pyramid roof with one ogee-roofed glover and two roof dormers. The interior of the dovecote has not been inspected, but the stables contain 19th-century stalls and ceiling beams, along with some earlier roof timbers. The coach-house incorporates a 19th-century first floor.
Local climate
Stable Court, Cottage Workshop and Dovecote Approximately 60 Metres South East of Great Tew House Together with Attached Walls and Piers receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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