Four Shire Stone Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 March 1985. A C17 Farmhouse.
Four Shire Stone Farm
- WRENN ID
- errant-stair-aspen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 March 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Four Shire Stone Farm is a detached farmhouse with an attached partly converted barn and store, dating from the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The 17th-century section is built of coursed, squared, and dressed limestone and sandstone, topped with a concrete tile roof and ashlar stacks. The 18th-century barn and 19th-century store are also made of coursed, squared, and dressed limestone, with the store featuring a corrugated asbestos roof. The 20th-century extensions have an artificial stone concrete tile roof.
The main body of the building is rectangular, with 20th-century extensions at the rear and a conservatory at the front. The partly converted 18th-century barn is located on the right gable end, while the 19th-century store is on the gable end of the barn. The garden front is two storeys high with a garret, featuring a single light casement with a double-chamfered surround. The facade has four bays and three windows, which are lit by two and three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with horizontal glazing bars. There are two 20th-century doors with glazing bars in flat-chamfered surrounds, one of which is original, leading from the conservatory into the house.
A former surround to the front door, which has a 4-centred arch and imposts, has been reused in the right-hand wall of the conservatory. The wall also features compass-drawn rosettes and various roughly carved initials and dates, with the earliest date being 1769. Additionally, there is reused stone in the wall of the conservatory with the inscription "MARKHAM GARDNER/ADDELBURY/1777." The left end of the 18th-century barn has been converted and includes a double-width entrance with a timber lintel to the right. A stable door leads to the store on the right, which is lit by two glazing bar casements and has a pitching window in the right gable end. The gable-end and axial stacks have moulded cappings.
Inside, there is a spine beam and two open fireplaces with bressummer beams, one of which bears the incised inscription "WILLIAM LUCKELL 1688." The barn interior features ventilation slits and a gable-end pitching window with a keystone visible from inside. The roof of the store has a single truss with curving principals that are probably reused and set upside down.
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