Drew'S Farmhouse

BOXWELL WITH THE STREET (Leighterton Village ST 8291 west side) LEIGHTERTON 2/27 No. 10 (Drew's Farmhouse)

GV II

6.9.54 Detached farmhouse. Datestones: BRB/1784 to front block; 1804 to rear wing. Roughcast render to front block; random rubble limestone to rear wing; rubble chimneys; stone slate roof, pantile to north wing. Front block of 2 storeys and attic; two- storey rear wing; single-storey oven house to north. Front elevation: incised imitation ashlar render; three-window elevation with 3-light chamfered mullioned casements, that at centre in upper floor taking form of Venetian window. Central doorway with lead lean-to porch hood on timber posts and 6-panel door. Oval datestone above Venetian window. Rubble chimney to each gable end of front block, south gable end also having single off-centre attic casement Projecting 2-storey outshut in angle between front block on south side of rear wing, south side of wing having 2-window sash fenestration, single sash on ground floor to right of lead-hooded doorway having 6-panel door; datestone over doorway. Ridge-mounted ashlar chimney to west gable end of rear wing; archway to attached garden wall. Single-storey oven house projects from north side of rear wing with brick gable end chimney. Interior: mostly unaltered. Oven house contains bread oven, washing coppers and stone sinks. Forms part of group with 2 barns and stables (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: ST8231891049