Outbuilding About 30 Yards East Of Marstow Court

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SO 51 NE 470-0/8/92 26/03/87

MARSTOW Outbuilding about 30 yards east of Marstow Court (Formerly listed as Granary about 30 yards east of Marstow Court)

GV II*

Probably house; now farm building. Circa C15; altered C18 and C19. Sandstone rubble with sandstone dressings. Gable-ended Welsh slate roof. PLAN: Rectangular plan; one large room later subdivided into 2 nearly equal size rooms. EXTERIOR: Tall 2-storey building. North elevation has blocked circa C15 window at centre on ground floor with 2 trefoil-headed lights with cusped spandrels; 2-light wooden-frame window above with chamfered mullion with straight-cut stops, the lights divided by octagonal mullions [only one survives] ; to right on ground floor a small chamfered stone blocked window; on extreme left blocked chamfered 4-centred arch doorway. East gable end has various chamfered stone windows, two of 2 lights with stone mullions, first floor right blocked. South elevation later large raking buttress on right corner and later stone external staircase on left corner to first floor doorway with blocked window on left. West gable end has off-set at first floor level and later doorway on left with plank door with strap hinges. INTERIOR: Ground floor has later stone rubble partition and chamfered ceiling beams. First floor open to 2 1/2 bay circa C17 queen-strut roof with lightly chamfered principals, tie-beams and collars and trenched side purlins and diagonally-set ridgepiece. First floor north window has inward opening ledged shutters with strap hinges. HISTORY: Reputedly associated with the manor of the Knights Hospitallers, who held lands in Marstow. SOURCE: Kay,R.E., Survey report in CRO, 31/1/1966.

Listing NGR: SO5532319201