Cottage Morley House

A detached house and adjoining cottage, forming a single property, dates from the early 18th century and is set back from the road in Lechlade Market Place. The house has a brick front on a rubble stone base, with alternating flush quoins. It features a steep slate roof with a moulded wood frieze, eaves cornice, and large dentil blocks, along with stone end stacks. The stack on the right is external, while the one rebuilt on the left end is faced with stone blocks. A rear outshut is also present.

The main range is two storeys with an attic, and incorporates a two-storey cottage range to the right, which has a small front extension in stone and brick. The main house’s front has three windows – 16-pane sashes in flush, moulded stone surrounds. The ground floor has two similar windows with a continuous stone dripmould. A central doorcase features a moulded stone flat Tudor arch, capitals, and stopped jambs. Above this is an oval lattice window in a stone frame. The door itself is six-panelled, with the central pair glazed, and the upper and lower pairs field-panelled in decorative shapes: an ellipse at the top and a rectangular design with convex corners at the base, characteristic of Lechlade designs. An early 19th-century decorative timberwork porch with a swept roof sits in front of the door. Two gabled dormers with 6-pane sashes and moulded wood architraves are visible in the roof.

The cottage wing’s right-hand side has two first-floor windows similar to those on the main house, and remnants of a decorative projecting brick course halfway up. A 16-pane sash with a timber lintel is on the ground floor, while a semi-circular flush stone doorcase with a decorative radial fanlight and a door similar to the main house’s door are to the left. A renewed door sits within a moulded wood surround on the small front extension. The cottage wing also has a large, lateral, diagonal brick stack to the rear and an external stone stack to the right, with a diagonally set brick flue.