Chesterton Farmhouse And Attached Outbuilding And Garden Wall

CIRENCESTER

SP0100 CHESTERTON 578-1/7/341 Chesterton Farmhouse and attached outbuilding and garden wall

GV II

Farmhouse with attached outbuilding and garden wall. House is early/mid C18 with mid C19 additions and alterations. Coursed squared limestone rubble; artificial stone slate roof; 3 rendered and brick ridge and left- and right-end stacks. Main 3-bay range has hipped roofed single-storey-and-attic addition to right and additions to rear. 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range. First floor has two C19 two-light timber casements to right, one C19 8/8-pane sash to left. Ground floor has 4 similar 2-light casements, one similar sash window. Mid C19 half-glazed door with 4-pane overlight in mid C19 pedimented porch to centre left. Flush quoins to left and right angles and right angle of addition to right. Rear elevation has gabled wing to right, 2-storey cement-rendered lean-to, 2 gabled dormers with 2-light timber casements. INTERIOR has C19 stick baluster staircase with oak grip handrail, chamfered beams with run-out stops in first floor front right and centre rooms, boxed-out beam in ground floor front right, mid C19 fireplaces in first floor front left and ground floor front right, C19 roof structure with threaded purlins. Outbuilding, former washhouse and boilhouse, to rear built into garden wall is rat-trap bond brick to rear and left side walls, coursed squared limestone and C19/C20 brick to front, Welsh slate roof; two C19 two-light timber casements and 2 plank doors; slate shelves in room to left, privy attached to right. Garden wall approximately 2m high in rat-trap bond brick largely faced with limestone rubble to exterior with stone coping encloses kitchen garden to rear of house. (Gloucestershire Records Office: Map of Chesterton Farm House and Premises: 2nd Nov: 1847-: D647B P24).

Listing NGR: SP0128300308