6 And 8, High Street

WOODSTOCK HIGH STREET SP4416NW (South side) 9/110 Nos.6 and 8 18/10/49 (Formerly listed as St. Crispins, Ramillies) GV II House, now 2 houses and flats. Dated H/SH/1710 on rainwater head. Limestone ashlar; gabled stone slate roof; stone stacks to rear. Double-depth plan. 3 storeys; 5-window range. Stone lintels over central C18 six-panelled door with overlight, and C20 panelled door set in beaded segmental-arched architrave to left. Early C19 bow window with pilasters and moulded cornice to left of centre; late C19 canted bay window with glazing-bar casements to right. On first floor, early C18 six-pane sashes with thick glazing bars set in Baroque-style keyed and segmental-arched architraves; timber lintels over C19 casements with glazing bars on second-floor. Raised storey bands; late C19 gabled roof dormer with horned 6-pane sash. Interior: stair-turret flanked by 2-storey outshuts to rear: early C19 service range to rear, of colourwashed brick with C20 tile roof. Interior: quartered stop-chamfered beams. Early C18 stone bolection-moulded fireplace to right. Late C18 decorative fanlight to doorway leading to rear hall, which has fine early C18 quarter-turn stairs with winders and turned balusters set on closed string. Early C18 panelled doors to rear and first floor. Winder stairs rise to attic, which has collar-truss roof with butt purlins. Built for maltster Simon Hartley and his wife Mary: sold by Hartleys to Duke of Marlborough in 1812. (Information from VCH)

Listing NGR: SP4449116700