Description

SP4735 ADDERBURY HIGH STREET
(East side)
Adderbury East
7/38 Placketts
08/12/55 (Formerly listed as Laurel
Cottage)

GV II
House. Late C17/early C18 and c18/C19, extended C20. Coursed squared marlstone
with some wooden lintels; Welsh-slate roof with brick gable stacks. 2-unit
central-stair plan with added bay. 2 storeys plus attic. Regular 3-window front
has a small stone porch, to left of centre, with wavy bargeboards and a 6-panel
door, and has leaded cross windows in the outer bays plus a matching
single-light transomed window over the porch; ground-floor openings have stone
flat arches. Steep-pitched roof has 2 renewed gabled roof dormers with wavy
bargeboards. Lower added bay to right has a further entrance and a gable
parapet. Rear of main range has 2 further cross windows at ground floor, and has
a small C20 extension. Front wall has a stone inscribed "B/TE". Interior:
chamfered beams; large chimney breast with late C18/early C19 wooden fireplace
surround, and cupboard, and a contemporary cast-iron range.
(Country Life 1949: Vol 105, p88)

Listing NGR: SP4719635464

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26588260

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Dorset (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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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)