Description

SO 90 NW BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT -

5/7 Througham Slad Farmhouse including 2 walled courtyards with gate pier 28.6.60

II*

Large detached house. Mid-late C16; c1689 enlargement; mid C18 alterations. 1931 alterations by Norman Jewson for W.A. Cadbury. Random rubble limestone, partially roughcast rendered; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic south range. Two-storey range running north altered from dairies; cross-wing at north end altered from barn. North front: 2 full gables, both roughcast rendered, right projecting forward. Single window fenestration to each gable, right gable having ground floor 3-light and upper floor 2-light off-centre recessed cavetto mullioned casements with hoodmoulds; quatrefoil gable vent. Two small single-light windows to left set one above other in former stair position. Ground and-upper floor 3-light chamfered mullioned casements to left gable; single-light to attic, all with hoodmoulds. Doorway with simply moulded opening and flat stone porch hood set against projecting right gable. Two ridge-mounted chimneys, one with datestone: 'I C / 1689'. Former dairy wing projects forward to left with C20 two-light mullioned casements. Three-light casements to gable end of former barn with datestone above: 'T M C / 1859'. Small courtyard with gateway having monolithic gate piers with ball finials. Wall has spear-topped iron railings; matching gates. West end: gable-mounted chimney with moulded cap. Upper floor level reset 2-light C15 window with cinquefoil cusping. South side: 3 full gables all apparently of different dates. Mixed fenestration. Two C20 casements in openings for C18 sashes to ground floor of left gable with keyed moulded architraves; mullioned casements above. Mixed mullioned fenestration in remainder of range to right, many C20 restored. Attached low-walled garden with monolithic gate piers. Restored fenestration to right gable. East side: gable end of main range to left with single-window fenestration, 3-light to ground and upper floor, 2-light to attic. Two rows of pigeon holes with perches above and below attic casement; reset 2-light C13 lancet at upper floor level. C20 fenestration to range running to right including 2-storey gabled porch with datestone: 'WA EH / C / 1931'. Interior: fireplace with cambered timber lintel in earliest part of house; small cupboard alongside with Jacobean door. Remainder of house extensively fitted out by Cotswold group of craftsmen. Timber staircase by Norman Jewson has squared lattice-work balustrade. All doors date from this period with high quality traditional ironmongery by Alfred Bucknell of Waterlane. Good position in secluded valley. (N.M., Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO9224806559

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