Banbury Cottage and front boundary walling

Banbury Cottage is a semi-detached house located on Lower Street in Merriott. It dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century and is constructed of Ham stone ashlar with a thatched roof featuring a coped west gable and a brick chimney. The house has two storeys and an attic, with two bays.

On the ground floor, there is a four-light hollow-chamfer mullioned window set in a wave-mould recess with a label. The first floor features three-light ovolo-mould mullioned windows in wave-mould recesses, which do not have labels. The lower bay has a flat-arched doorway with an ovolo-and-wave mould surround and a label, leading to a 20th-century door. The west gable includes some 20th-century windows, but there is also a two-light ovolo-mullioned window with a label in the attic. A flat-roofed extension is present at the rear.

In front of the house, approximately 2 metres away, there is a near-ashlar stone boundary wall about one metre high, which has angled coping. This wall returns to the south-west corner and features a gap opposite the doorway with a pair of wrought-iron gates that have arrowhead rails and curved braces. The boundary wall appears to be of the same construction as the adjacent No 55, suggesting that they may have originally been part of the same house.