Godstone Cottage The Flat

Godstone Cottage and The Flat are a house, now used as a shop and dwellings, situated in Witney High Street. No. 107 dates back to the 15th century and was remodelled in the early 17th century, with later alterations. It is constructed from coursed limestone rubble, with a rendered front, and has a gabled Welsh slate roof with a ridge stack featuring 17th-century stone and 18th-century brick flues. The building originally had a three-unit through-passage plan. A bracketed open pediment sits above the central 18th-century six-panelled door and its overlight. A 20th-century shop front is on the left side, featuring glazing bars and framed by a wood architrave with fluted pilasters. The windows are mostly mid- to late-19th century two-pane sashes. A single-storey range was added to the rear in the late 19th century.

No. 105, to the left, was built in the 17th century and has a late 19th-century facade. It’s made of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled Welsh slate roof and a brick end stack. The layout is two units, and it’s two storeys high with a two-window front. A six-panelled door from the early 19th century is on the left side. The windows are 20th-century replacements, with a mid- to late-19th-century sash window on the first floor. No. 105A, at the rear, also dates to the 17th century and is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with a gabled stone slate roof. This two-storey range has a 17th-century studded and moulded door, and an old plank door in an outshut to the right side wall.

The interior of No. 107 features a 15th-century roof with central collar trusses and arched scissor-braced trusses with chamfered soffits to the left (over the former hall) and adjacent to the right end wall. To the left of the ground-floor door is a morticed and moulded beam, which originally belonged to a 15th-century screen partition. There are heavy stop-chamfered beams throughout, and a staircase from the late 18th century at the rear. Nos. 105 and 105A have chamfered beams and a 17th-century collar truss.