Ivy Cottage Keble Cottage Wadham Cottage

SOUTHROP SOUTHROP VILLAGE SP 1903-2003 14/226 Ivy Cottage, Keble Cottage and Wadham Cottage (previously listed as Cottages on north side of 23.1.52 main street formerly an Inn) GV II Formerly inn, now row of 3 houses. Early-mid C17 (Keble Cottage); later C17 addition (Wadham Cottage); early C19 alterations and additions. Dressed freestone front, random rubble limestone sides and rear; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey; parallel rear range to Keble Cottage. Front: central part (Keble Cottage) has 2-window recessed chamfered mullioned casement fenestration, 3-light to ground floor, 2-light above, all with hoodmoulds. Central doorway with C20 door and hipped roof porch. Wadham Cottage to left refronted in early C19 with three 12-pane ground floor sashes, one upper floor casement centrally above. Three ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded caps, 2 tall chimneys indicating ends of original building. Lower part to right (Ivy Cottage) may have been 2 houses originally with doorway to left of single-window fenestration, all segmental arched small-paned casements; left doorway now with similar casement. Two ridge- mounted chimneys with plain caps. Rear: range behind Keble Cottage has chamfered mullioned fenestration, possibly forming separate house at one time. Two-storey C20 flat-roofed addition to rear of Wadham Cottage is not of special interest. Interiors not inspected. At one time formed the Greyhound inn, closed by 1891. (N.M. Herbert, 'Southrop' in V.C.H. Glos vii, 1981, pp. 129-136)

Listing NGR: SP2009103517