College Dene And Part Of Garden Wall College House College House (East Wing)

A large house, now divided into four properties, located in Northleach. It is believed to date back to the 17th century, but was significantly altered and extended in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The house is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, with a stone slate roof and ashlar stacks. It follows a ‘U’ shape. The building has two storeys and an attic, with three flat-roofed 20th-century dormers featuring four-pane sash windows.

The garden front is symmetrical, with three windows and is lit by four-light stone-mullioned casement windows with transoms and king mullions. A stone-mullioned cross window sits above the porch. The central entrance features a 19th-century part-glazed door set within a flat-chamfered four-centred surround, contained within a stone porch. The porch has a basket-headed entrance with carved spandrels and a stopped hood. A gabled parapet is decorated with Queen’s College's heraldic shield above the entrance. A two-storey, stone-mullioned, canted bay window lights the right-hand return. A 19th-century wing is set back on the right with stone-mullioned casements to the first floor, and features three triangular roof louvres. The left-hand return is lit by tall 19th-century two and three-light casement windows. Gable-end and axial stacks have moulded cappings.

A 19th-century limestone wall, approximately 3 metres high, runs for about 10 metres south of the south-west corner of the house. This wall contains a 19th-century studded plank door set within a moulded four-centred arched surround with a stopped hood; the wall steps up over the door. A shield above the door, visible from the garden, displays the initials ‘H.A.’, and the partial date ‘18_ 8’.

Historically, a house on this site existed in the 17th century and was known as Laverack's Great House. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the house served as the residence of the headmaster of Westwood’s Grammar School. The interior is not accessible.