Wincot Farmhouse

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