Great Coleford House

Great Coleford House is a former farmhouse dating back to the late 16th century, with significant remodelling and extensions in the late 18th century and a rear addition built in the 1960s. The construction is a mix of colourwashed rendered cob and stone rubble, with a thatched roof to the left-hand gable of the main block and a slated roof to a rear wing. The building includes projecting end stacks, a lateral stack to the main range, and a stack at the junction of the main range and the rear wing.

The house has a roughly L-shaped plan. The original main block was a three-room plan with a through passage, with the lower end to the right. In the late 18th century, a staircase was added to the passage and a kitchen was built to the rear, to the right of the lower end, which was subsequently upgraded to a principal room. A later one-room plan addition adjoins the kitchen, likely converting an existing farm building, concluding with a 1960s crosswing. The partition between the inner room and the hall has been removed.

The main facade is asymmetrical with a four-window arrangement and regular fenestration. It features a half-glazed, two-leaf front door set within a flat, bracketed porch canopy, flanked by two-leaf C19 glazed French windows and a C19 two-light casement to the left. The first-floor windows are a mix of C20 16-pane sashes and C19 or C20 two-light casements with glazing bars. The right return has a doorway leading to the kitchen and a mix of C19 and C20 windows with glazing bars.

Inside, the left-hand room (formerly the hall and inner room) has deeply-chamfered cross beams, one displaying a stop-chamfered spine beam with run-out stops. The right-hand room (the lower end) has a plastered over crossbeam. A late 18th century stick baluster staircase is located in the former passage, and there are several late 18th century two-panel doors on both the ground and first floors. The former kitchen has a chamfered cross beam and a blocked fireplace with a bread oven. Roof principals are visible upstairs, some appearing to be from the 18th century (straight) and others from the 20th century.