Blythe Cottage, Barston

Another of my favourite houses - this time in Barston, not Barford.

It is a grade II listed building built in the early 17th century. It has a timber frame with red brick infill. It has an old tiled roof with side gables and two gable ends on the front supported on cut wooden brackets. The lattice bay windows on the ground floor have tiled roofs and there are oriel bay windows on the first floor. My favourite things are the wooden gabled porch at the front and the magnificent red brick chimney stack on top of the roof ridge. The house is illuminated at night, but since it sits on a rather dangerous bend on a narrow lane I've not yet managed to photograph it in the dark.