Upper Dorval House

SO 90 SW SAPPERTON SAPPERTON VILLAGE

1/92 Upper Dorval House 4.6.52 (formerly listed as Dorvel House

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Detached house. c1902/3 by Ernest Barnsley, with late C17 core. Rubble stone with smooth stone dressings to end wings, Cotswold stone-slate roof, 2 stone stacks on central section, one gable stack to each wing. 2 storey central original section has 3-storey cross gable wing to left extending back and 2-storey cross gable wing to right extending forward with extra 2-storey wing to south continuing line of original section. Large gabled porch to central section with stone tile-hung gable. 3 windows to centre, twin leaded casements, and 3 on ground floor with continuous wooden lintel over the 2 to the left of porch. Windows on wing to right are small pane timber casements under wooden lintels, 2-light in cross gable, 3-light below. Wing to left has plain chamfered 2- light stone-mullion leaded casements under straight dripmould. Both Barnsley's added wings have slit vents in the gables. Interior: central section has very fine plaster ceiling by Ernest Gimson. Many original doors (with their latches) and window seats survive, also panelling and the main stairs. The Arts and Crafts architects and furniture designers, Ernest Gimsoii and the Barnsley brothers, Ernest and Sidney, came to Sapperton in c1902 having already lived for some years in the area at Pinbury and Daneway. Each man built a house for himself in the village in close proximity to the others, all of which survive. Of the three, Ernest Barnsley's is the least altered externally and also contains a considerable number of original features.

Listing NGR: SO9477503510