Claverdon Hall And Attached Walls And Gate Piers

Claverdon Hall is a house dating from the 16th century, with later alterations and restorations, including an extension added around 1939. It is accompanied by 18th-century walls and gate piers with 20th-century gates.

The central recessed bay is stuccoed and plastered, while the flanking wings are timber-framed with close-studding and small timber framing, supported by brick nogging. The wing to the left has a ground floor of freestone and lias stone garden walls. The house has plain tile roofs and brick stacks. The plan is H-shaped, with ranges to the rear; a rebuilt range to the rear left incorporates a large external stack. A single-storey extension to the right appears to incorporate former outbuildings.

The two-storey house has an attic and a five-window front. The central entrance has a glazed door with lead cames, topped by a hood. This is flanked by two-light wood mullioned and transomed windows with lead cames. Matching windows are above. The wing to the right has similar windows on both floors, and a small two-light wood casement in the gable head with lead cames and crown glass. The left wing features a two-light casement to the ground floor under a flat arch with a raised keystone, a moulded first-floor band, a three-light casement to the first floor, and a small two-light window high in the gable head with lead cames and crown glass. There is a further main entrance on the left return, accessed via a wooden porch. The roof is gabled, featuring an internal left stack and a large external right stack.

The sitting room, within the central range, has a beam with an ovolo-moulded chamfer and chamfered stops on the bressumer beam. It also features massive internal studs, massive chamfered beams, a plank door to the cellar, and exposed close-studding. The dining room in the front left range has 17th-century panelling with a carved frieze, likely brought in around 1930, along with some 20th-century additions. It also contains a fireplace dating from the early 18th century, featuring fluted Doric pilasters, a frieze with triglyphs and metopes, a massive chamfered tie-beam, rafters with ogee stops, and a presumed underlying close-studded wall. The first floor contains extensive close-studding with braces and exposed small, square frames, as well as chamfered beams with ogee stops. A rear right room exhibits two jowled studs. A room to the right incorporates small panelling, probably inserted around 1939.

Garden walls abut the house to the left, with low walls to the sides of the garden and across the front, approximately one meter high, including a pedestrian opening with piers and ball finials. Taller walls, joining the garden wall to the left, lead to a yard opening with piers surmounted by cornices and ball finials.