Black Horse Ridge

GREAT WITCOMBE BIRDLIP VILLAGE SO 9214

9/91 Black Horse Ridge

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Former inn now house. C17 altered early C19 by R.A. Prothero. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins; pebble dash and render in places; corrugated tile roof; brick stacks. Rectangular plan with later extensions at right angles to rear. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Three-windowed facade. Two single-light windows with dressed stone surrounds lower right, probably lighting the cellar. Ground floor from right to left: C20 two-light stone- mullioned casement; single-light C20 casement with flat-chamfered surround; 3-light canted bay lit by one 16-pane and two 12-pane sashes far left, with a flat roof which is continued to the right to form a porch sheltering a plank doorway with rectangular stone tablet with the inscription "THE / COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS / FIELD CLUB / FIRST MET HERE / ON 7 JULY 1846'; blocked single-light window to the right. Three late C19-early C20 stone-mullioned casements, two with leaded panes to the first floor: single central hipped 2-light roof dormer. Two single-light windows with flat-chamfered surrounds to the left gable end, timber lintel to the left suggests there may once have been a gable entry. Gable- end stacks. An inn until 1900 when it was lived in and altered by R.A. Prothero (q.v. Leckhampton Court). Interior not inspected but reputed to contain a room with C17 panelling according to D. Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979.

Listing NGR: SO9245314391