Ansell'S Farmhouse

LANGFORD LECHLADE ROAD (North-west side) SP2402-2502 Ansell's Farmhouse 6/110 12.9.55 GV II

Farmhouse. Early C18 but possibly incorporating parts of an earlier building; later additions and alterations. Uncoursed limestone rubble; steep-pitched hipped stone slate roof to main range, half-hipped and gabled to service ranges and attached outbuildings. 2 storeys and attic. 3-window front; glazing bar sashes, 16-paned to ground floor, in moulded stone surrounds with dripstones probably replacing mullion windows; 3 hip-roofed dormers in middle of roof slope. Central entrance; flush 6-panel door (top panels now glazed) in moulded stone surround with bracketed open-pedimented hood. Extruded external end stack to left has paired and rebated shafts with moulded capping and dripstone. Later, lower half-hipped service range to right (see straight joint) has tall ridge stack to left with paired and rebated shafts, capping and dripstone; 3-light C19 casement with wood lintel to set-back section to right on ground floor. Integral lateral stack with tall red brick shaft to right. Rear. Back wall of main range has 3-light mullion windows to centre on each floor, cut by C19 lean-to to left. Infilled window (probably formerly of 2 lights) with dripstone on first floor to right. Gabled range projecting at right-angles to left of lower service range may be C17: granary to upper level approached by external lateral steps. Interior. Much altered late C20 but retains stone-flag floor to ground floor, some panelled doors and chamfered ceiling beams. [2408]

Listing NGR: SP2459902744