Farmbuildings Including Cottage Walls And Gates Adjoining To Form Octagonal Courtyard To East Of Hinchwick

CONDICOTE SP 13 SW & SP 12 NW Farmbuildings including cottage walls 1/10, 2/10 and gates adjoining to form octagonal courtyard to East of Hinchwick 25.8.60 (previously listed as Outbuildings NE & S of Hinchwick Manor )

GV II

Farmbuildings including cottage. Early-mid C19, remodelled C20. Coursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, Cotswold stone roofs. Elongate octagonal and roughly symmetrical plan with open side to West containing Hinchwick (qv). Cotswold style, charmingly adapted in early C20, in a Lutyens matter. To West is an arched carriage entrance below a dovecote with cross-gabled cupola; gabled to both fronts, the gables swept down over flanking doors, handsome wrought- iron gates. Central feature of South is a 2-storey 3-bay cottage with 2-light mullioned windows on 1st floor, and Tudor-arched entry on ground floor and circular gable vent. Matching block on N side is a barn with slit vents having lozenge heads, and with plain central entry. The linking buildings are single-storey ranges (stables, garages, implement sheds etc) with more irregular openings some with rectangular stone piers. As the site is sloping these latter are built with the slope (and hence have sloping ridges) uphill to Hinchwick. Internally the main divisions of the courtyard are formed by 2 walls about 8 foot high framing the carriageway and which have roughly central arched entrances; the walls open up with quadrants in front of the house. Many of the wrappings of the Cotswold style such as coped gables with saddlestones, oculi in the gables of the larger buildings and so on as well as the local materials add up to an impressive design, carefully planned and executed.

Listing NGR: SP1450530012