Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0100 CHESTERTON
578-1/7/341 Chesterton Farmhouse and attached
outbuilding and garden wall

GV II

Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and garden wall. House is
early/mid C18 with mid C19 additions and alterations. Coursed
squared limestone rubble; artificial stone slate roof; 3
rendered and brick ridge and left- and right-end stacks.
Main 3-bay range has hipped roofed single-storey-and-attic
addition to right and additions to rear. 2 storeys, attic and
cellar; 3-window range. First floor has two C19 two-light
timber casements to right, one C19 8/8-pane sash to left.
Ground floor has 4 similar 2-light casements, one similar sash
window. Mid C19 half-glazed door with 4-pane overlight in mid
C19 pedimented porch to centre left. Flush quoins to left and
right angles and right angle of addition to right. Rear
elevation has gabled wing to right, 2-storey cement-rendered
lean-to, 2 gabled dormers with 2-light timber casements.
INTERIOR has C19 stick baluster staircase with oak grip
handrail, chamfered beams with run-out stops in first floor
front right and centre rooms, boxed-out beam in ground floor
front right, mid C19 fireplaces in first floor front left and
ground floor front right, C19 roof structure with threaded
purlins. Outbuilding, former washhouse and boilhouse, to rear
built into garden wall is rat-trap bond brick to rear and left
side walls, coursed squared limestone and C19/C20 brick to
front, Welsh slate roof; two C19 two-light timber casements
and 2 plank doors; slate shelves in room to left, privy
attached to right.
Garden wall approximately 2m high in rat-trap bond brick
largely faced with limestone rubble to exterior with stone
coping encloses kitchen garden to rear of house.
(Gloucestershire Records Office: Map of Chesterton Farm House
and Premises: 2nd Nov: 1847-: D647B P24).

Listing NGR: SP0128300308

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26586177

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)