Description

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote
844-1/4/462 (North side)
29/03/90 No.117
Gartage Hall
(Formerly Listed as:
HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote
No.117
Gartage Hall)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid to late C17, remodelled and extended
in late C19 or early C20. Timber frame with plastered panels
set on a plinth of squared stone in courses; in late C19 the
framing exposed for picturesque effect by the removal of the
original render; steeply pitched slate roof with lead rolls to
hips and ridge and boxed eaves supported on widely spaced
timber brackets along the front; a central, axial, brick
stack; C19 and C20 additions at rear mostly rendered with
hipped and gabled tiled roofs; added onto the front in late
C19 a timber-framed entrance porch built of old timbers and
with a shallow hipped slate roof.
PLAN: the original house a block of two rooms with a central
lobby entered from added porch and leading to a cross passage
on the left-hand side of the axial stack; extensions at rear
may incorporate earlier service rooms.
EXTERIOR: two storeys; the front and sides of the main block
are box framed with sill, first floor and top plates and
straight tension braces to the corner posts on both floors and
thin, close set studs; the front almost symmetrical. In the
centre the added two-storey framed porch; originally the upper
floor of the porch supported on two round timber posts at the
outer corners but on the ground floor the sides later infilled
with leadlight windows and the front with an outer entrance
doorway with ovolo-moulded frame and leaded sidelights; boards
applied to the first-floor bressumers to the porch and the
bases of the first-floor corner posts are carved with scrolls
in bas-relief; on the first floor of the porch on each side a
two-light, diamond leaded casement; on the ground floor to
right of porch a late C19 or early C20 bay window; to left of
porch a late C19 narrow horned sash, further left a C18,
three-light, rectangular leaded, wrought-iron casement
probably C18; on the first floor to each side of porch a
similar three-light casement; on the ground floor of each of
the end walls of the block a late C19 bay window and on the
first floor a C18, three-light, rectangular leaded,

wrought-iron casement.
INTERIOR: largely refitted in late C19/early C20 but C17
features include the following; inside the porch early C17
reused carved panels; staircase with twisted balusters and a
landing in the upper level of the porch; left-hand room,
probably the parlour of the original house, has deeply
chamfered ceiling beams with hollow step stops; the right hand
room, probably the hall-kitchen, has chamfered ceiling beams
with straight cut stops and a large fireplace with chamfered
stone jambs and chamfered timber lintel.
Both a notable example of the final phase of the timber-framed
tradition in the Vale and of the centralised lobby-entry plan
type.

Listing NGR: SO8744217318

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561616

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