Bachelors Court is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1952. Farmhouse.
Bachelors Court
- WRENN ID
- dim-pillar-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Bachelors Court, 21, Sapperton
- OS grid reference
- SO 946 032
- Coordinates
- 51.72758, -2.07935
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bachelors Court is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a house, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of rubble stone and features a Cotswold stone-slate roof. The main part of the building is set back from the pathway and has an additional contemporary wing on the left, creating an L-shape. The main range includes a large stone gable stack on the right and a smaller brick gable stack on the left, with a steeply pitched blind central gable.
There are two windows with two-light wooden casements that have lead lights. On the ground floor, there is a two-light window to the left, a three-light window to the right, and a central gabled porch built in 1840 that has a chamfered four-centred arched doorway. Inside, the property features some plasterwork and woodwork by Ernest Gimson. The left-hand room on the ground floor contains a polygonal oak corner cupboard with a wooden carved panel and an inset date of 1915, along with small animal figures in a plaster frieze above and over the doorway to the left. The fireplace in the right-hand room on the first floor has small plaster motifs with a date of 1913 and entwined initials MJ.
The two-storey wing to the left has a central brick stack and a lobby entry with a newel stair over the fireplace, along with four windows similar to those in the main range. This cottage was occupied for many years by Norman Jewson, a pupil of Ernest Gimson, who moved to Sapperton shortly after Gimson and the Barnsley brothers. It remained occupied until 1984 by his daughter, Nancy.
Local climate
Bachelors Court receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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