Folly View

SP20SE CARTERTON AND BLACK BOURTON BAMPTON ROAD (North side) Black Bourton 5/152 No. 7 (Folly View), Model 15/07/81 Cottages (Formerly listed as No.7, Model Cottages)

GV II Former lodgings house for 8 estate workers, with superintendent's residence, later converted to 2 cottages and then to single house. Circa 1860, by E.G. Bruton, for Christ Church College, Oxford. Squared and coursed limestone, rock-faced, with slate roofs and stone chimneys. 2-plan building in rustic Gothick style with steeply pitched roofs and pointed arches over narrow lights. 2 storeys. Front to road has 2 bays, the left bay gabled. This bay has 3-light ground floor window with cushion capitals on shafts between lights, 2-light first floor window with stop-chamfered stone mullion, and arched vent slit in gable. Right bay has one single light, an arched slit window, an arched doorway with C20 board door, and a small round window or vent just below the eaves. Left side has arched ground floor windows and catslide semi-dormers to front bays, and projection with M roof, similar windows and arched door beyond. Part of a group of buildings for housing estate workers. (Mary Lupton: History of the Parish of Black Bourton, 1903)

Listing NGR: SP2849603984