Burdocks

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/03/2016

SP 1400-1500 14/196

FAIRFORD MARSTON MAISEY LANE (east side) Burdocks

(Formerly listed as Claremont House, previously listed as 'Claremont' and 'Gateposts Claremont and Quadrant Entrance Wall')

9.3.82

GV II Country house. 1911 by Sir E. Guy Dawber for J. Reade. Cotswold Queen Anne style. Local coursed and dressed stone with modillion eaves cornice, hipped stone slate roof, plain large stone stacks. L-shape, 2 storeys and attic. Main elevation to garden has 7 windows, 12-pane sashes with keystone and sloping voussoirs, with central three breaking forward under pediment with keyed oculus. Large central moulded stone doorway with dropped keystone, pulvinated frieze, and moulded cornice on consoles. Seven dormers with flat roofs and moulded wood cornices. Entrance front of 5 windows, central 3 set back. Central stone doorcase with Ionic columns, entablature and pediment, rusticated door surround with door of 8 fielded panels, lower 4 forming an X shape. Lower service wing to east, linked by wall with arched door to outbuildings (not included), and with single-storey extension ending at north east corner with small square pyramidal roofed pavilion. Coursed stone wall with clay ridge tile coping extends north from both sides of house with small break to west for garden and larger on east for yard, ending in small central quadrant to north with large square piers on moulded plinth, with moulded stone cornice and large ball finials with vermiculated bands. Wall approximately 2.8m high, piers nearly 4m high. The house is set in formal grounds with yew hedges and fountains and is a good example of early C20 taste. (Architectural Review, 1923)

Listing NGR: SP1449400388