Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops And Malthouse

Gables Cottage, Cygnet Restaurant, Craft Workshops, and Malthouse is a house and former malthouse, now serving as a house, restaurant, and craft workshops. It was built around 1820 by James Pimm for James Swan. The building features coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a low cambered roof covered with tar and paper, felted underneath, along with a brick ridge stack. The structure is L-shaped with a rear right wing. No. 34, which is to the right, is a two-storey building with a five-window range. There is a keyed cambered stone arch over a plank door to the left, and a timber lintel over a 20th-century door to the right of centre. The building has cambered stone arches over two-light windows with glazing bars. The malthouse, located at the front left, is also two-storey with a five-window range and features similar windows on the side and gable end, along with a plank door and a blocked hoist opening. The rear of the building has some 20th-century windows and a door. Inside, the six-bay malthouse has cast-iron columns supporting the first floor, which features a low-pitched queen-post roof. The tar and paper roof was produced at Eynsham Mill, which was owned by the same Swan family, and was also used by J.C. Loudon at Great Tew.