Description

SO 8003 SW LEONARD STANLEY THE STREET (west side)

12/84 The Mercer's House, The Weavers Cottage and Vine Cottage (previously listed as Tudor House) 28.6.60 II*

Formerly single house, now 3 attached houses. C15 cruck house; c1500 and late C16 additions. Stone facing of mid-late C16, early C17 and late C17. Timber framing; ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; concrete replacement tile roof. Main range (parallel to road) formerly hall; 2-storey wings added to east side; 2-storey former weaving shop to west. Front: stone gable to left of mid- late C16 refacing has single-window fenestration, 3-light recessed cavetto with thick mullions to ground and upper floors each with hoodmould; single-light to attic with hood. Altered doorway to right with flat porch hood has reset oval window over. Two gables to right project forward; random rubble to ground floor, close studding with middle rail above each with single casement, timber mullioned and transomed to left, C20 casement to right. South side of wing has C20 lean-to porch addition; above is junction indicating former jettied end of gabled wings, extended further in close studded framing. Upper floor opening to left with Tudor- arched head formerly gave access to timber-framed lean-to porch, recorded in early photographs. South side: gable end of main range to right with gable-mounted double chimney with moulded caps. Timber framed former early C16 weaving shop extends to left with continuous upper floor jetty. Close studding to ground floor, formerly without windows, C20 casements and porch additions; square framing to upper floor with curved passing braces. North side: 2 stone gables. Right gable in very large masonry has projecting chimney stack with moulded cap; 2-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement with hoodmould to upper floor right. Gable to left, probably late C17, with 2-window fenestration, some altered; mostly cavetto mullioned. Rear: 2 stone gables to main range, earlier to right. Mostly 3-light fenestration to ground and upper floors except 4-light to ground floor of left gable. Single attic lights. Gable end of former weaver's shop to right with random rubble infill below jetty. Interior: in former open hall of main range one cruck blade survives and part of former external wall with 2 windows having diagonal-set wooden mullions. Room on north side of house has moulded stone chimney and plank and muntin partition on upper floor. A very important survival illustrating the changing pattern of use. Illustrated in W.G. Davie and E.G. Dawber, Old Cottages...in the Cotswold District, 1905; and N.M. Herbert, 'Leonard Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp 257-267)

Listing NGR: SO8024603396

External Links

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