Nutbeam Farmhouse

SO 90 NE DUNTISBOURNE ABBOTS DUNTISBOURNE LEER

6/74 Nutbeam Farmhouse

4.6.52

GV II*

Large country house. One wing partly C15, extended C17; large C18 addition; remodelled by Norman Jewson in C20. Random rubble and coursed limestone; dressed stone windows, doors and quoins; rubble, ashlar and blue brick chimneys; stone-slate roof. C15 wing extended by one room in C17, 2-storey with attic; C18 range added parallel to, and partly lapping with earlier house is 2- storey with attic and - before C20 remodelling - had central staircase hall with 1 room laterally; outshut to back of C18 range; C20 service additions at back of house. South gable end to earlier house has single window fenestration: 4-light chamfered mullioned without hood to ground floor, 6-light mullioned and transomed with hoodmould to upper floor. Scattered fenestration to east side of wing with moulded buttress at south east corner: two altered 2-light, that to ground floor having hoodmould; 2-light Perpendicular window to upper floor is said to be an accurate copy of original window in this position; timber lintel to doorway. South gable end of C18 range has blue brick chimney at ridge and fenestration altered to mullioned windows from sashes in C20; C18 deep stone lintels indicate original fenestration. Main C18 east front is 3-window and altered to 2 and 3-light mullioned windows; at centre to upper floor is single-light with 4-centred arched head; attic roof dormer at centre. At north end blue brick chimney at ridge and surviving C18 sash, otherwise fenestration altered. Tall ashlar chimney stack at back of C18 range. Late C17 single-window fenestration to north end gable of older house: 5-light to ground floor is enlargement from original 3-light; 3- light to upper floor and 2-light to attic. Back gabled wing added in C20; altered fenestration to back of older house. Interior of upper floor room in C15 wing has close-studded partition and 2 ogee-headed timber doorways; 2-bay arched braced open roof with cusped collar and windbraces. Recorded as a monastic house and a possession of the Abbey of Lyre in Normandy but by C13 had been transferred into the ownership of Cirencester abbey. Sits on a promontory, typical of that occupied by other monastic houses in this area. (A. Carver, The Story of Duntisbourne Abbots, 1966.)

Listing NGR: SO9799307479