Cassey Compton House

A manor house dating from the early to mid-17th century, with later alterations in the late 17th and early 18th centuries and the 19th century. The building is constructed of ashlar with a stone slate roof. Originally, the main body was ‘U’-shaped, but a wing and a range at the rear of the present south wing have been demolished. A single-bay wing from the 19th century extends at right angles from the south wing.

The main body, dating from the late 17th to early 18th century, is two storeys and an attic, with two 20th-century two-light dormers lit with slate hanging to the west wing. Both wings contain three windows, all featuring hollow-moulded stone-mullioned cross windows with rectangular leaded panes, and a band between the ground and first floors. A blocked central front door is visible in the south range. A 20th-century plank door with fillets is positioned off-centre to the left, above a hall light. An inserted 20th-century plank door is located in the bottom of a partly blocked cross window towards the gable end of the west wing. Stone-mullioned cross windows are present in the gable ends of both wings. A rear lean-to is open-fronted.

Successive 17th-century wings extend to the north of the main body; the earliest section is three storeys high with a 6-light stone-mullioned casement on the ground floor, displaying a central king mullion, square mullions, and a stopped hood. A 20th-century plank door is set within an open-sided porch with a hipped roof to the right. Two-light stone-mullioned casements are on the first and second floors, with one now blocked and partly obscured by a 19th-century extension at right angles. A later 17th-century range features two and three-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned casements, with a stopped hood over the window at the right-hand end. There are two plank doors with timber lintels, and another single-width plank door is blocked. A three-light stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood and an unglazed bull's-eye window are set in the gable end. A courtyard-facing wall has two Cotswold dormers lit by two-light stone-mullioned casements and a lateral chimney gable to the right. A three-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with a stopped hood is on the ground floor, paired with a 20th-century plank door and timber lintel to the left. The roof shows lateral, axial, and gable end stacks with moulded cappings, and flat and stepped gable end coping to the successive 17th-century wings.

The interior includes a moulded tie beam initialled and dated 'W.M 161-' with jewelled steps (defaced at one end) in the 19th-century extension, which are thought to be reused. A staircase was removed to Stowell Park. Original roof timbers remain. The late 17th-century house was built for Richard Howe, of the Vestey Estate. An engraving from circa 1712 by Kip, based on Atkyn’s History of Gloucestershire, records the building.