52, The Square

GREAT TEW THE SQUARE SP3929 (East side) 10/87 No.52 27/08/56 (Formerly listed as Cottage No.51 and 52) GV II House. Late C17. Coursed squared marlstone; Stonesfield-slate roof with limestone-ashlar stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys plus attic; 2-window front has 3-light stone-mullioned windows at each floor with labels and lattice glazing. To extreme left is a small chamfered opening with label in line with the stack. Right gable wall has mullioned windows at ground floor and in gable and it returns to a short hipped-roofed rear wing with further mullioned windows. 2 entrances at rear. Stacks to left gable and ridge of rear wing are C19 and have plinths and moulded caps. Interior not inspected but noted as containing an inscription in the attic "John Hiorn that is my name and with my hands I made this same. This house builded by John Stow and Joan his wife and here they lived all their life. Builded in the year of our Lord God 1680 RSIHTEA". (V.C.H.: Oxfordshire, Vol. XI, p.225).

Listing NGR: SP3980729313