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Latitude: 51.5636 / 51°33'49"N
Longitude: -1.6201 / 1°37'12"W
OS Eastings: 426430
OS Northings: 185041
OS Grid: SU264850
Mapcode National: GBR 5WS.Z3C
Mapcode Global: VHC0Y.VYWP
Plus Code: 9C3WH97H+FX
Entry Name: Billie's Cottage
Listing Date: 14 October 1969
Last Amended: 11 December 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1284164
English Heritage Legacy ID: 250650
ID on this website: 101284164
Location: Ashbury, Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, SN6
County: Oxfordshire
District: Vale of White Horse
Civil Parish: Ashbury
Built-Up Area: Ashbury
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ashbury
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Cottage Thatched cottage
ASHBURY HIGH STREET
SU28NE (South side)
5/26 Billie's Cottage
14/10/69 (Formerly listed as two
cottages to West of Rose and
Crown Inn)
GV II
Farmhouse, now house. C15 hall house with late C16, late C18 and C20
alterations. Originally timber-framed; in C18 house clad in squared and coursed
chalk on sarsen base, some brick quoins; thatched roof; brick stacks. C15
L-plan ground-floor hall house. 1 1/2-storey, 3-window range. Timber lintels
over C20 door and casements. Interior: Entry from present front door, door to
kitchen/service in rear wing. In late C16 first floor inserted and north gable
stack and axial stack backing onto passage to rear wing inserted. In late C18
house was converted into two cottages. Chamfered beams and joists in parlour
(right of entry to south facing wing) and kitchen (in rear wing); ovolo moulded
mantleshelf and oak gunrack over parlour fireplace. 3 1/2-and 3- bay wings of
raised-cruck trusses with blades crossed at ridge and smoke- blackened rafters.
Circular sarsen bread ovens attached to main fireplaces. lean-to shed of sarsen
walling and with thatched roof projects from north gable wall.
Listing NGR: SU2643085041
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