Ourn Cottage

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Ashlar Thin dressed or smooth stone used to cover rough stone on walls.
Bolection The projecting part of the moulding that surrounds a panel (or similar)
Bressummer A beam or girder over an opening, and supporting a wall.
Chamfered With the angles of the edge cut off or rounded off. A bevelled edge.
Mullion Upright division between window panes, especially of stone.
Ogee A moulding with an S-shaped section. Also described as an arch of double curvature - first convex then concave.
Palladian After the style of Andrea Palladio - a 16th century Italian architect.
Pilaster Rectangluar pillar, projecting from and supporting a wall.
Class I Two ground-floor rooms with a central chimneystack against which there is a lobby entrance, and often a stair. Thought to also be known as a "two-unit baffle entry".

Description
Two storeys with brick walls and a tiled roof, which was built early in the 19th century. Was previously Stratford Inn.
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The information presented here is provided courtesy of the owner and is taken, in part, from "Ancient & Historical Monuments in the City of Salisbury, Vol I, Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1980"

 
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