Pike Cottage

Pike Cottage is a toll house that was converted into a cottage around 1800. It is built from coursed squared marlstone and features wooden lintels, topped with a Welsh-slate roof and a limestone ashlar stack. The building has a single-unit plan and stands two storeys high. The symmetrical front has a central door flanked by two-light casement windows, with a similar casement window above on the first floor. The roof is pyramid-shaped. The stack at the rear has a moulded cap, which is characteristic of other cottages in the Great Tew estate.

Inside, the beams and joists are chamfered with run-out stops, and there is a large open fireplace with a cambered bressumer and a bread oven. A winder stair, which is now largely demolished, used to flank the fireplace. The Swerford/Aynho road was turnpiked in 1768 but was altered before 1808, when the cottage was built at a new junction. Pike Cottage is marked on a map from 1808.