LITTLE STREET
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Threeways is an 18th century house of rough coursed limestone, formerly thatched but now roofed in blue slate. The gables are parapetted with copings, kneelers, corbels and finials, and the chimneys are of fine ashlar. The leaded light windows are of squared oak with mullions and transoms. There is a fine oak front door, and a porch supported on oak posts, above which is a sundial with the date 1772 in Roman numerals. Attached is The Old Bakehouse (one of two in the village in the 1920s), of red brick with some blue headers, and with a blue slate roof. The windows are of modern casement type. It is a little surprising that, in days when home cooking was the norm, the village could still maintain two bakehouses! The two adjoining cottages, Blackbird Cottage and Claremount, used to be three; they are of rough coursed limestone, with slate roofs and brick chimneys, and probably date from the 18th century.

Threeways and The Old Bakehouse

Wootton House was built in the late 19th century, of rough coursed limestone, but with red and blue brick dressings to the front elevation. The sash windows have brownstone sills, and the red brick chimneys have a blue course in the head. The roof is of blue slate. There is a two-storey extension to the rear, built in 1991, with front wall of stone from Duns Tew and rendered rear and gable walls, red and blue brick dressings and asbestos slate roof.

Wootton House

The bungalow next to Wootton House - Stonehurst, dates from 1932. It is of recovered mixed stone. The apexes of the two parapetted gables to the front bear finials; below are square bay windows. There are stone chimneys and a blue tiled roof. There is a stone porch with bracketed pitched tiled roof. Belmont is also of the 1930s. It is a brick built house, pebble-dashed to the front, painted brickwork elsewhere. The three chimneys are of red stock brick, and the roof is of pale red asbestos slates. Timber brackets support the projecting front gable above double height bay windows.

Chestnuts is an 18th century cottage of random rubble limestone, once thatched, now with a slate roof. There are small pane casement windows and brick chimneys. There was a small private school here in the early years of this century.

Chestnuts

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Dippers Cottage was originally two 18th century cottages, one large and one small, with thatched roofs - in one of these lived a sheep-dipper, hence the name. These were modernised to form one house in 1989. it is of random rubble, with some ashlar to the front. There are brick chimneys, a roof of grey interlocking tiles and a stone porch, also tiled.

Dippers

Orchard View is a 20th century bungalow, built of mixed stone in random style, with door and window dressings and quoins in brown Horton stone. The roof is of grey tiles. There is a flat roofed annex, and a half octagon bay window with flat roof. The chimney is of stone, and the window frames are of timber.

Spencer House was created in 1969 from two cottages and a partly completed dispensary; it is of limestone, some random rubnble and some coursed, with the rear elevation of reconstructed stone. The roof is covered with interlocking brown tiles. There is a flat roofed annex to the rear, and a garage to the front. In the apex of the west gable was placed the centre stone from the church tower window. The pair of cottages, 1 Little Street and Jasmine Cottage, were of stone and thatch, but were rebuilt in the 1880s with red brick gables and front elevations. The windows have stone sills and heads; Jasmine Cottge has timber sash windows; those of the other cottage are modern UPVC casements. The roofs are of slate.

Dellside and Stone Cottage were a row of four 18th century cottages, of random rubble limestone. During recent years they have been converted into two dwellings and completely modernised. The one-time thatch has been replaced with tiles. The chimneys are of brick; Dellside has one dormer window, and Stone Cottge two, to front and rear. Dellside has an old wooden porch over the front door; Stone Cottge hs a wide porch lean-to roof supported on two oak posts.

The Braid is a brick built bungalow, dating from 1969, with tiled roof and timber casement windows.

Fleet Farm House was probably built in the 19th century, and reconstructed in the early 1900s. The rear and gable ends are of random rubble limestone, the front is of sawn brown Eydon stone. There are two bay windows with hipped roofs; the centre doorway has a stone head over. The chimneys are of red brick, with a blue band, and the roof is of blue slates. All the windows are of large sash type, with stone sills and heads. The farmyard behind now serves also as a garage and car sales area.

Chapelstone was built in 1982 on the site of the demolished Baptist Chapel. The stonework is a mixture of pale limestone and dark marlstone. The house has a tiled roof, brick chimneys, casement windows, and a bay window and extended porch, with post support.

The Old Manse was, of course, the residence of the Minister, but is now a private dwelling It is of random rubble, with a double arched doorway in dressed stone. There are splayed bay windows. The roof is slate covered and the chimneys are of brick. A flat roofed annex links the house with the garage, recently extended with accommodation over. The house has modern casement windows.

L to R The Old Manse and Fleet Farm House

Sulgrave House (formerly known as Bell House) is a large house built in the 1870s on the site of an earlier house, in fine sawn ashlar with marlstone dressings and two rows of banding in the darker stone. The east wing was added in the 1930s in brickwork, covered in cream rendering with 'bag' finish. The chimneys are of ashlar or of rendered brick to match the walls. The hipped roofs are blue slate. Over the ash windows to the north and south elevations are some fine arches. The interior includes some fine Hornton stone fireplaces and a pine staircase. A present (1992) the house is being extensively modernised. Behind the house, Bell Cottage is a small stone dwelling constructed from a barn in the 1930s. It has a slate roof and small pane steel windows.

Sulgrave House (formerly Bell House)

The Wool House was built in the 18th century on the site of an Elizabethan building where excise men checked bales of wool. It is of a mixture of limestone and marlstone, with a slate roof (formerly thatched). Some of the windows are of modern casement type, others of squared oak with leaded light inserts. The gables are raised, with copings. A new wing, in brickwork was added to the south side in 1926.

The oldest part of Rectory Farmhouse dates from about 1640; it was extended and 'modernised' in the early 18th century; the house has been altered comparatively little since then. It is built of random rubble Helmdon stone, with a thatched roof and three brick chimneys. To the rear, three dormer windows are set in the thatch. The 18th century casement windows, with locally made wrought iron fittings, are still in place. Inside, there are folding pine shutters to the ground floor windows and panelled pine doors. Adjoining the house is an old barn with a roof of stone tiles - apart from the Manor, the only remaining one in the village.

Rectory Farm and The Wool House

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