Old Clock Cottage

SWERFORD EAST END SP3731 9/197 Old Clock Cottage

GV II

Shown on Ordnance Survey map as Old Clock Cottage and Hill View. House. c.1630, altered C18 and extended c.1800. Coursed squared marlstone with some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile and Welsh-slate roofs with brick stacks. 3-unit plan extended to L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic and 3 storeys. 3-window front of earlier lower range has 3 casements at ground floor: one with 3 leaded lights, another renewed, and a 2-light casement with margin lights. Doorway to right of centre. At first floor are 3 leaded cross windows, 2 with renewed frames. Tiled roof has gable parapets, stacks to right of centre and to both gables, and a C20 roof dormer. End of added wing forms a fourth bay to right and has a large first-floor bay window supported on a carved console; a wide opening below with a carved lintel has been reduced. 3-window return front has segmental-arched 12-pane sashes at first-floor, a 9-pane sash and 2 blocked windows above, and at ground floor has 2 segmental-arched casements and a doorway. Hipped slated roof. Rear has a gabled canted stair projection. Interior not inspected but described in Wood-Jones as having through passage, moulded beams, winder, stair and butt-purlin roofs. (R. Wood-Jones, Traditional Domestic Architecture of the Banbury Region, 1963, pp.90-2).

Listing NGR: SP3780531189