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

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