Description

SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET
(West side)
Adderbury East
7/48 Corner Cottage and Beggars
08/12/55 Roost
(Formerly listed as Row of
eight houses including
entrance yard of Royal Oak
Public House)

GV II
Two houses. Early/mid C18. Partly coursed and squared marlstone rubble with some
ashlar dressings and some wooden lintels; concrete plain-tile roof with stone
and brick stacks. 2-unit plans. 2 storeys plus attic. 2-window front of Corner
Cottage, to left, has a 6-panel door to left of centre, approached by a flight
of 4 semi-circular stone steps, and has a large leaded 3-light casement to right
and a smaller renewed casement to left, all with ashlar flat arches; first floor
has old 3-light casements, that to right below a small gable. Small cellar
window to left of the steps has an arched stone head. Right bay has uncoursed
rubble walling above an ashlar plinth. Beggars Roost, to right, has a pair of
2-light casements at first floor, and has a larger 3-light casement plus the
entrance below, all with lintels. Continuous steep-pitched roof has a gable
parapet to left, brick end stacks, and a stone stack rising to left of bay 2.
Long wing to rear of Beggars Roost ending with a gable parapet, has further
casements and a garage entrance. Interiors not inspected.

Listing NGR: SP4719335530

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26298535

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Recommended Books

• 
  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)