Description

CLIFFORD CHAMBERS

SP14NE WILLICOTE
1912-1/5/61 Wincot Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid to late C17 with C18 and C19 additions, much
restored in C19. Brick with ashlar dressings; partly
timber-framed rear wing with some dressed stone; tile roof
with C19 brick stacks with ashlar dressings and diagonal
shafts with brick caps. T-plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic; 3-window range. Ashlar plinth
and coped gables. Centre breaks forward with C19 addition to
left. C19 entrance to right of centre has moulded ashlar
surround and overlight to 6-fielded-panel door.
Recessed-chamfered-mullioned windows have labelmoulds and
leaded glazing; ground floor has central 5-light window and to
each end a 2- plus 2-light mullioned and transomed window with
king mullions, that to left with plain glazing; 1st floor has
a central 3-light window and flanking cross-mullioned windows
right and left. Attic has a C19 gabled dormer with 3-light
small-paned casement. End stack, and cross-axial stack with 4
clustered shafts, and cross-axial stack to rear wing.
Right return has 2- plus 2-light mullioned and transomed
window to ground and 1st floors; attic has 3-light window.
Rear has similar 2- plus 2-light window and cross-mullion
window to ground floor; 1st floor windows probably similar,
partly obscured by ivy; attic has small gabled dormer.
Adjacent return of rear wing has some coursed squared stone to
right end, incorporating blocked opening with timber bressumer
and some inset C17 carved stones including console; 2- plus
2-light window to each floor, that to 1st floor partly
blocked, and cross-mullion window to 1st floor right. End has
coursed squared stone ground floor and timber-framed 1st
floor; ground floor has mullioned and transomed window with
some leaded glazing; 1st floor has wooden
ovolo-mullioned-and-transomed window; 2-light windows to
attic.
Right return similar with entrance now in C19 single-storey
service wing, with similar later wing to left; 3-light wooden
ovolo-mullioned-and-transomed window to right, with small
light to angle; 1st floor has 2 similar smaller 3-light
windows; end stack to service wing.
INTERIOR: much altered; C19 staircase.
(Victoria County Histories: Victoria History of the County of
Gloucestershire: London: 1965-: 207 & 209).

Listing NGR: SP1854349204

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662606

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)