Description

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN BOLLOW

11/193 House, Bays Court

GV II

Farmhouse; 1847 (datestone) for Benjamin H. Mayo. English bond
brickwork, painted stone quoins to openings, ashlar plinth, tiled
roof. 3-window wide, 2-room deep under single roof, 2 storeys
plus attics. Symmetrical facade: front door boarded and studded,
up 2 stone steps: Tudor arch to fanlight with Y-tracery. Hipped
porch roof with moulded eaves, on tapering octagonal pillars with
moulded capitals. Either side 3-light stone mullion and transom
window, centre-pivoted iron casements in upper sections; Tudor-
arches to lights, with sunk spandrels; hoodmould with deep drop at
ends. First floor three 2-light stone casement windows, otherwise
similar. Brick gable chimneys. Left return datestone in centre
at first-floor level, 2 single-light windows to attic, otherwise as
those on main facade. Carved bargeboards, linked by horizontal
section below chimney. Rear elevation same as front, but 1 window
altered. Forms group with farm buildings, (q.v.). (Victoria
County History, Gloucestershire, Vol X, 1972).

Listing NGR: SO7459913694

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26394943

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)