Description

DYMOCK THE VILLAGE SO 63 SE (north side)

4/119 High House

GV II

Former vicarage, now flats. Mid-late C18, altered late C19, late C20. English-bond brickwork, ribbed concrete tiles. 'L' plan, 5-window front, singre-bay rear wing, 3 storeys above cellars: single and 2-storey wing added to form 'U'. Front elevation: central door behind single-storey porch, up 6 stone steps with flanking brick walls: plain, rendered sides to porch, heavy cornice, flat roof: 2-pane sashes each side. Covers 6-panel door, all fielded, rectangular fanlight with St. Andrew's cross in 2 halves. To left, 2 sash windows, flat rubbed brick arches; plain brick string course above. Below, cambered heads to cellar openings. On left tripartite window, under cambered brick arch: projecting dentil course to verge to gable over. To right canted single-storey brick bay, double sash in centre, single pane lower, 2 pane upper, brick piers, stone lintels, hipped lead roof. First floor 5 sash windows, rubbed brick arches: second floor five 9- pane sashes, timber lintels, moulded brick eaves. Chimneys on each gable. Right return; front, 2 blind openings per floor, string course as front left, except first floor, 2-light mullion and transom window on left. To rear added wing, 2-pane sashes ground and first floor, casement second floor, with cambered brick arches: chimneys on left and right of wing from eaves. Internally, open-well, stair in rear wing, turned balusters, 3 per tread, cut string, moulded handrail, square newels: may have been remade in C19. Wing on left and rear wing on right late C19 additions, as bay window on front. Forms group with church (q.v.). (The Rev. J. E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO6996831226

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Recommended Books

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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)