The Stone Cottage

The Stone Cottage is a late 17th-century house, altered and with its eaves heightened in the early/mid 19th century, and with mid-19th century stables/coach house attached. It is located in Vicarage Street, Painswick. The house is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with a stone slate roof, and has lateral stacks with two mid-20th century flues facing the road. The probable two-unit plan is rectangular.

The garden-facing elevation has a hood mould over a three-light stone-mullioned window with chamfered surrounds on the ground floor to the left. There is a similar two-light window above, a one-light window to the ground floor right, and a restored three-light window to the first floor right, all lacking hood moulds. A central bay, to the right of the left-hand three-light window, has 19th-century iron casements in what are probably original single-light openings. A late 20th-century inserted opening with double doors is on the ground floor to the right. The right-hand, east-facing gable has hood moulds over two- and three-light stone-mullioned windows with step-chamfered surrounds and iron casements with runners. The road-facing elevation has timber lintels over 20th and 19th-century small-paned casements at the west end.

The interior is reported to retain stop-chamfered beams and a late 17th-century fireplace with a moulded stone bressummer.

To the west end of the house is a stable/coach house block, formerly within the curtilage of Southfield House. It is constructed of squared and coursed stone with ashlar quoins and dressings, and has a gabled Welsh slate roof. The west-facing principal elevation features a gable facing to the right with a two-light stone-mullioned window above a similar five-light window set in a lean-to projecting bay. A timber lintel with a central stone pier spans two double openings, with a plank loft door in a gabled half dormer to the left. To the rear right, adjoining the garden elevation of The Stone Cottage, is a tall single-storey block with a similar three-light window and a late 20th-century door, as well as a lean-to with a stone slate roof containing a two-light window and a half-glazed door.

The Stone Cottage is one of many late 17th-century properties in Painswick, dating from a period of prosperity, and together with the attached mid-19th century block, has significant group value close to the centre of the town.