Daubenys

This is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from around 1400 with later additions in the 16th century. It's constructed of rubble stone with stone tile roofs, featuring coped gables, a ridge stack, a rear wall stack, and a stack to the north end of a rear wing. A distinctive feature is the unusual 15th-century octagonal pinnacle cowl on the east end gable. The original house follows a long-house plan, with a converted 15th-century barn located to the west.

The main house has a three-window front. The upper floor features early 19th-century 16-pane sash windows, and an ovolo-moulded mullion window that breaks the eaves on the left side. The ground floor includes a 16-pane window set within the frame of a former 2-light mullion window with a dripstone, a pair of 12-pane windows in a moulded surround with a renewed hoodmould, and an oak plank door within a cyma-moulded doorcase, also under a hoodmould. An additional 16-pane sash window with a dripstone is on the east end ground floor, and a 12-pane sash with a hoodmould is above it. The west end, under a continuous roof, incorporates the former barn, with 20th-century openings including a dormer gable.

Inside, a continuous, eight-bay wind-braced roof extends throughout the house and barn, with cruck trusses supporting the structure. The upper room at the east end has an arch-braced central truss and a 15th-century fireplace with a flat stone hood and a moulded top course. A date of 1390 is scratched into the fireplace. A ground floor room east of the cross passage features a Tudor-arched fireplace and heavy beams. The east end room has a partially exposed moulded stone fireplace and a heavy chamfered beam. The 16th-century rear wing has a heavily joisted floor to its south end. The wing’s roof is a two-bay structure with two windbraces at the north end only; the north end floor is likely a later addition. A timber lintel fireplace is located at the north end. A Tudor-arched oak doorway, with an original window to the right, connects the main house and wing. The barn range has a heavily joisted floor to the centre bay only.

The house's origins may extend back to the 13th century, although the roof and the majority of the structure likely date from after 1388, when it passed to New College, Oxford.