Radcot Bridge House

Radcot Bridge House is a farmhouse, now a house, dating to the mid-17th century. It was extended in 1726, as indicated by a datestone, and further altered in the 19th century. The house is constructed of un-coursed limestone rubble with stone slate roofs. It has a roughly L-shaped plan, comprising a main range of two cells with a central baffle entry, a short rear range to the right, and a further extension to the left in 1726, with a rear range addition from the 19th century. The house is two storeys with a gable-lit attic. There are three windows on each floor; first-floor windows are directly below the eaves, with a wood lintel over the window on the left, and 17th-century dripstones over the centre and right windows. The windows are early 19th-century three-light leaded casements, except for a plain mid-19th-century casement on the lower left. A nail-studded plank door sits under a 20th-century gabled porch positioned between the centre and right windows, with a faint indication of a former doorway immediately to the right of it. A chamfered, narrow, rectangular attic opening is visible in the right gable end, and there are two infilled windows on the first floor. 20th-century brown brick ridge stacks are positioned immediately to the right of the entrance and at the junction with the 1726 addition (originally an end stack). The 18th-century addition has an integral end stack with a dripstone and capping, which has been heightened in brown brick. A part of the rear range from the 17th century has a moulded rectangular window on the ground floor, with a wood casement and iron bars to the exterior. A full-length catslide outshut is located to the rear of the range, in the angle at the rear.

Inside, the left ground-floor room, with the date "1726" inscribed in the jamb of the doorway to the back wall, features a chamfered spine beam with flat joists and a stone inglenook fireplace with a slightly cambered head. It also contains a nail-studded plank door with a cambered head and strap hinges leading to the doorway. The central room has a stone-flag floor, a chamfered spine beam, and an inglenook fireplace with a wood lintel. A splayed window to the back wall now opens into the outshut. The right room showcases a reused richly moulded ceiling beam with chamfer stops and sawn-off ends of cross and ring beams, indicating that it was likely removed before being brought to its current location. This room’s inglenook fireplace has chamfered jambs and a wooden lintel, with a panelled door on the right, which formerly led to a winder staircase and has H-hinges. Chamfered cross beams are on the first floor, now mostly boxed in. The 19th-century addition to the rear range is believed to have been a former coach house. Extensive earthworks, known as The Garrison, are located in the field to the south.