Ringer'S Cottage And Dix'S Cottage

Ringer's Cottage and Dix's Cottage are a pair of attached houses located on Church Street in Kingham. Ringer's Cottage dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone later additions and alterations. It is constructed from roughly coursed marlstone rubble, featuring alternating limestone ashlar angle quoins and dressings, and has a slate roof with coped verges. The building is two storeys high and has 20th-century metal casements in original 18th-century openings, with projecting keystones on each floor to the left and right of a central half-glazed boarded door, which is also in an original 18th-century opening and has a keystone under a gabled hood. There is an integral end stack to the left that has been rebuilt in 20th-century red brick above a dripstone, and a 19th-century lean-to is present at the rear.

Dix's Cottage, attached to the left of Ringer's Cottage, is probably early 19th century with later additions and alterations. It is made of roughly coursed limestone rubble and has a stone slate roof with coped verges. This cottage is also two storeys high and features a slightly asymmetrical three-window front, with 19th and 20th-century casements in original early 19th-century openings that are slightly cambered and have flush keystones on the ground floor. A six-panel door is located under a stone bracketed hood between the centre and right windows, and there is a slightly cambered archway leading to a passage on the far right. A Sun Fire Insurance plate is situated above and between the centre and right windows on the first floor. At the rear, there is a gabled range in two sections at right angles to the left, which includes a red brick integral end stack for the first section and a stone end stack for the second section, which has an asbestos sheet roof. The second range appears to have formerly extended further, as there is a fireplace with a chamfered wood lintel visible on the outside wall at the ground floor.