Description

SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET (East side) Adderbury East 7/39 Bee-hive Veterinary Surgery, 08/12/55 Bee-hive Cottage, and garage and entrance to Placketts (Formerly listed as Cottage approx. 35 yds N of Moorey House, and Cottage approx. 25 yds N of Moorey House)

GV II 2 houses. Probably C17 incorporating a medieval window, altered C18 and C19. Coursed squared marlstone with wooden lintels; thatch and concrete plain-tile roofs with stone-and-brick stacks. Single-unit and 2-unit plans plus carriage entries in a single range. 2 storeys. 5-window range has original carriage entries in bay 2 and between bays 4 and 5, now with later lower lintels and double doors, and has an inserted garage door in bay one; first-floor windows in bays one and 2 are leaded 3-light casements, the latter forming a dormer over the entry to Placketts (q.v.). Bee-hive Cottage (bays 3 and 4) has 3-light wooden casements, one with a stone segmental arch to left of which is the doorway; bay 4 has 2 cellar windows: one a 2-light stone-mullioned window; the other a re-used medieval window of 2 pointed lights under an enclosing arch. The surgery, to extreme right, has a tiled roof, raised at the front, and includes a 4-light shop window and a 3-light first-floor casement. Steep-pitched roof has a stone-based ridge stack betweeen bays 3 and 4 and a brick stack on the right gable. Rear of Bee-hive Cottage has a gabled stair projection. Interiors: central stack in Bee-hive Cottage has a large open fireplace with a chamfered bressumer. At one stage the range was The Beehive Public House. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p418)

Listing NGR: SP4717535452

External Links

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