Description

DURSLEY FERNEY
ST 7698
(north end)
6/12 Ferney Hill
23.6.52
GV II

Former large country house, now local authority residential home.
1767-8 by Anthony Keck. Limestone ashlar; painted brick;
rendered chimneys; plain tile roofs to front range, stone slate to
rear wing. Two-storey with attic centre; 2-storey wings at each
end. Large 3-storey wing to rear to form L-plan. Long curved
corridor link to main entrance on lower level at west end. Former
stables and coach house to rear (q.v.). Front: 3-window
fenestration to centre block. Tall 15-pane ground floor sashes
flanking central doorway with moulded architrave and dentil cornice
over on console brackets; double C20 glazed doors approached up
semi-circular steps. Ground floor sheltered by Regency ironwork
canopy running between wings. Twelve-pane sashes to upper floor;
6-pane casements to attic. Modillion cornice below attic windows
extends to become parapet cornice of octagonal-ended projecting
wings; blocking course over; other plain banding also continuous.
Sashes as before to wings, one per face of octagonal end. West
side: brick with stone modillion cornice and banding continued
from front. Two-window sash fenestration, one blocked. Long
curved corridor wing on gradient has round-arched windows in random
rubble side walls, and terminates in south facing ashlar facade
with doorway pediment and attached Tuscan columns; modillion
cornice above with plain blocking course over; 6-panel door. East
side: as west but with render to brickwork. Attached C20
extension is not of special interest. Rear: tall roud-arched
staircase sash. Mixed sash fenestration to rear wing, all with
timber lintels.
Interior: end of former dining room has Ionic arcade (distyle in
antis) with apse behind; dentil enriched ceiling cornices and
elaborate Adam style fireplace. Simple staircase with stick
balusters. Fitted cupboard on upper floor with bold scrolled
pediment is incongruous in small room and must be reused. Many
inserted partitions resulting from mid C20 conversion to
residential home.
(D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST7624898071

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26514487

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6