Walnut Tree House

WESTCOTE NETHER WESTCOTE SP 22 SW 2/267 Walnut Tree House GV II Detached house. Late C16-early C17 extended C20. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins. Red tile roof with ashlar stacks. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Rectangular main body with C20 extension to the right gable end (viewed from the garden front). C20 porch extension at right angles at rear, not of special interest. Flat-chamfered plinth. Symmetrical 2-windowed garden front with two original mid C17 hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods and two C20 stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods. Central C20 part-glazed door with a segmental surround. C20 Cotswold style extension breaks forwards to the right. Fenestration at rear from left to right; C20 single and 2- light stone-mullioned casements with stopped hoods to the ground floor. Single-light cellar window lower right. First floor; 2- light stone-mullioned casement with 4-centred arched heads to each light and a hollow-moulded mullion, carved spandrels and a stopped hood, single C17 light with a stopped hood to the right, 2-light C20 stone-mullioned casements, C17 two-light stone-mullioned hollow-chamfered mullion and a stopped hood far right. Stepped coped gables. Roll-cross saddle to the right gable end. Gable-end and axial stack (now reduced in height) to the main body. Interior not accessible but reputed to contain a good fireplace. (V.C.H., Glos., p 173)

Listing NGR: SP2260220325