Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops And Malthouse

SP4309 EYNSHAM NEWLAND STREET 14/157 (South side) No.34 (Gables Cottage), Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops and Malthouse

GV II

House and malthouse, now house, restaurant and craft workshops. c.1820 by James Pimm for James Swan. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; low cambered roof of tar and paper, felted ever; brick ridge stack. L-plan with rear right wing. No.34 to right of 2-storey, 5-window range. Keyed cambered stone arch over plank dour to left, and timber lintel over C20 door right of centre. Cambered stone arches over 2-light windows with glazing bars. Malthouse to front left, of 2-storey, 5-window range, has similar windows to side and gable end with plank door and blocked hoist opening. Rear has some C20 windows and door. Interior: 6-bay malthouse has cast-iron columns supporting first floor, which has low-pitched queen-post roof. The tar and paper roof was made at Eynsham Mill, which was owned by the same Swan family (of The sables (q.v.)), and was also used by J.C. Loudon at Great Tew. (information from the V.C.H.; J.C. Loudon, "An Account of the Paper Roofs used at Tew Lodge", Oxen; Bodleian Library).

Listing NGR: SP4352209544