Description

SO 8202-8302 WOODCHESTER SELSLEY ROAD
(south side), North Woodchester

16/259 Lower Court and Lower Court Cottage
(previously listed as Nos 1 to 3
28.6.60 (consec) Lower Court Cottages)

GV II

Two attached houses. Mid-late C17. Random and coursed rubble
limestone; brick and concrete rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof,
plain tile to Lower Court Cottage. Two-storey with attic. L-
plan. Part of south end of Lower Court Cottage is built into
Ferndale (q.v.). North side: 2 gables, 2-window fenestration to
upper floor and attic, paired casements to ground floor left under
combined hoodmould and casement with timber lintel to right. All
formerly 2-light chamfered mullioned casements, those to left gable
now without mullions. West side: 2 gables with scattered 2-light
and former 2-light casements except 4-light casement to ground
floor of left gable. Off-centre doorway with plank door to right
gable. East side: gable end of Lower Court projects forward to
right. Two gables to Lower Court Cottage to left with C19 timber
casements, many in formerly mullioned openings. South part of
Lower Court Cottage runs back to ridge only.
Interior: original fireplaces and roof structure survive in Lower
Court. Restored by the Period Cottage Improvement Society.
Forms part of group with Knapp House (q.v.) and Ferndale.

Listing NGR: SO8386002869

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26467053

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  For the Record
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey