Description

SO 71 NW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN ADSETT

7/192 Stable, Morwents Farm

GV II

Former stable and cider house, now store; early C19; roughly squared rubble, roughly coursed, larger, squared quoins, brick eaves course, tiled roof. 5 bays, 2 storeys. Gable to road formerly shuttered window ground floor, now part boarded, brick-on- end cambered arch over: below outlet to drain to stable floor. Slit air vent first floor, with above a ledge and 7, small square openings for dovecote. Flight of stone steps to door on right return. Left face, on right C20 boarded door in 2 halves: stone voussoirs to cambered arch above. On left 2-light timber window, brick-on-end cambered arch. Central lean-to with corrugated iron roof may be original: now contains oil tank. Beyond on left stone steps up to loft: original boarded door, set one step up from quarter landing: no lintel. On right 2-light timber casement window with flat brick-on-edge arch over: slit air vent to right. Bases for finials left at apex of each gable. Internally cider house on left at back, still containing press. Crane on wall to right of door in stable, use unclear. Upper floor, king post trusses; plastered partition inserted across loft, at same time as steps on right of gable built. Bearers for dovecote box remain. Lean-to extension along part of back of building. Forms group with house, (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO7288215246

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)