Pike Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the West Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. Cottage, toll house.

Pike Cottage

WRENN ID: endless-hammer-fen
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: West Oxfordshire
Country: England
Type: Cottage, toll house
Source: Historic England listing

Description

GREAT TEW B4031 SP33SE (North side) 2/30 Pike Cottage 24/09/85 GV II

Toll house, now cottage. c.1800. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with limestone ashlar stack. Single-unit plan. 2 storeys. Symmetrical front has a central door between 2-light casements, with a single similar casement at first floor. Pyramid roof. The stack rising from the rear has a moulded cap similar to other cottages of the Great Tew estate. Interior: beam and joists are chamfered with run-out stops. Large open fireplace with cambered bressumer and bread oven. Flanking, winder stair, now largely demolished. The Swerford/Aynho road was turnpiked in 1768, but altered before 1808 and the cottage built at new junction. It is shown on map of 1808. (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol.XI, p.223).

Listing NGR: SP3928231667

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