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Latitude: 51.6625 / 51°39'45"N
Longitude: -1.1345 / 1°8'4"W
OS Eastings: 459960
OS Northings: 196327
OS Grid: SU599963
Mapcode National: GBR 908.N0S
Mapcode Global: VHCY9.9G3V
Plus Code: 9C3WMV78+26
Entry Name: Bailiffs Cottage
Listing Date: 2 September 2003
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390593
English Heritage Legacy ID: 490577
ID on this website: 101390593
Location: Drayton St Leonard, South Oxfordshire, OX10
County: Oxfordshire
District: South Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Drayton St. Leonard
Built-Up Area: Drayton St Leonard
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Drayton St Leonard
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Cottage
DRAYTON ST LEONARD
1705/0/10001
02-SEP-03
Bailiffs Cottage
GV
II
House. Probably C16, with later additions and alterations. Timber frame, part rendered and painted, with clay tile roofs and stone and brick stacks.
PLAN: 2-bay box-frame, 1 1/2 storeys, with extension to NW: a single 1 1/2-storey C18 or C19 bay, and a later single-storey projection. A 1950s gabled staircase addition to SW front contains present entrance door, beneath modern part-glazed canopy.
EXTERIOR: Entrance front, rendered and painted, has 2 and 3-light C21 UPVC casement windows in previous openings to ground floor and 2 raking dormer windows above. Rear elevation has exposed timber frame with rectangular panels, mid-rail and diagonal braces. Panels infilled with modern brick, painted. 3 C20 ground-floor windows, 2 2-light gabled dormer windows above. Stone and brick external chimney with tiled flanks and brick stack to SE gable. Stack at original NW end now encased, and with secondary ridge stack added.
INTERIOR: Evidence of wall timber to wall-plate level. Roof has diagonal wind-bracing to purlins surviving in both bays. Upper part of roof not inspected. Massive stack at NW end of original building, fireplace opening blocked but line of lintel visible beneath plaster. SE fireplace smaller, with timber lintel and modern brick linings. NW bay has stout, chamfered beam. Partition between 2 ground-floor bays removed. Original stair removed. Plank entrance door on strap hinges, now within 1950s staircase addition.
NOTE: Group value with the adjacent listed The Old Stable and attached barn.
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