Oak Cottage And Little Oak

CHIPPENHAM

ST9173NW BRISTOL ROAD 930-1/5/15 Oak Cottage and Little Oak 22/06/78 (Formerly Listed as: OAK LODGE CLOSE, BRISTOL ROAD Oak Cottage)

GV II

Two cottages with former entrances to the rear, attached to Oak Lodge (qv), with late C19 rear wing in separate occupation, called Little Oak. Early C18. Limestone rubble with freestone dressings, stone slate roof with a C20 dormer to the left, stack to left gable end. Each cottage was single-unit plan, with C19 single-storey wing to the right and a single-storey lean-to to the rear. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. 2- and 3-light stone-mullioned windows to the left with hoodmoulds to 1st-floor C19 2-pane casement windows. C20 door and window to the right. The late C19 rear wing has 2/2-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: ashlar party wall between the cottages had a spiral stair to each side at the rear, that to the left-hand cottage remains with elm treads, only fixing slots in the wall remain in the right-hand cottage. The party wall has been pierced with C20 pointed-arched oak door. Each cottage has a chamfered cross-beam with run-out stops, that to the left has an open fire with an oak lintel. The 1st floor and attic has elm floorboards; each cottage has a 2-bay collar-truss roof with trenched purlins to the right and tenoned purlins to the left. In the C20 lean-to to the rear is a moulded hood on brackets to a former front door.

Listing NGR: ST9136373797