Wychwood Lodge Cottage And Wychcot

Wychwood Lodge Cottage and Wychcot are a pair of houses, formerly known as the Crown Inn, dating from the late 17th century. They feature a front made of cut and dressed ashlar-quality rubble with a high plinth, topped by a Cotswold stone roof and three chimneys, partly in ashlar. The buildings are designed in a traditional gabled Cotswold style, contrasting with the adjacent Chestnuts. They stand two storeys tall with an attic, which includes three attic gables. The windows have hollow chamfer mullions set in rebated surrounds, arranged as three, two, and three lights in the attic. The outer two-storey angled bays have hipped stone slate roofs and are arranged in a 1:4:1-light pattern, with a central four-light window featuring a drip on the first floor.

On the ground floor, there is a central segmental archway that has been filled with two pointed doorways, which have panelled doors and Y-tracery over-lights, supported by narrow imposts. A continuous string course runs above the ground floor, raised over the central archway. To the right of the archway are two irregular windows, which were part of the former entrance. The property includes two rear wings and a barn-like cross wing that forms a courtyard; the rear part of the east wing is now the Masonic Lodge. A Caernarvon-arch doorway to the left of the cross wing suggests a medieval origin, as does the first-floor hall of the rear wing. The interior has been altered and divided, featuring a Tudor arch fireplace on the first floor.