Barn, Stables And Priest'S House

SO 91 SW SYDE SYDE VILLAGE

2/126 Barn, stables and Priest's House (previously listed as Tithe Barn 4.6.52 and Stables North of Syde Manor)

GV II

Barn, now partly stables; and former priest's house, now house attached to barn. Possibly C14; C16 barn porch; all altered internally in C20 after fire. Random rubble limestone with ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. Barn is 5-bay with central porch to south and 2-storey house at west end; lean-to addition to north. South barn front: parapet gabled porch; doorway has plank doors with small-paned light over; timber lintel; offset buttresses, 1 on each corner of porch; left of porch C20 stable opening with concrete lintel; 2-light chamfered mullioned window to right of porch; 1 roof dormer either side of porch. Blocked chamfered pitching hole in east gable end with 2 slit vents below. Central blocked square-headed doorway on north side of barn with 2 single- light chamfered windows on either side, all alternating with buttresses; 2 roof dormers. House has altered and scattered fenestration to south: large C20 mullioned and transomed with doorway to right which has deep stone lintel and partially glazed C20 door; small C14 2-light above with trefoil heads and quatrefoil tracery below. West end has diagonal offset buttresses and parapet gable; 2 windows to upper floor have cusped ogee heads with leaded casements. Altered fenestration on north sine to left of lean-to roofed addition: 2 single lights to upper floor and small-paned ground floor casement with single-light to left. Interiors altered. (N. M. Herbert, 'Syde' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp. 227-232.)

Listing NGR: SO9491610809