Churcham Court

SO 71 NE 11/32 23.6.55

CHURCHAM CHURCH LANE

Churcham Court

GV II

Farmhouse; C16,17,19. Wet-dash render to front elevation, smooth render to porch, brick back and sides, tiled roof, with 2 courses of stone slates at eaves on back. Main section 2 rooms deep, 4 windows wide, 2 storey: lower wing to right. Front three equal gables, with wing roofed at right-angles to left. Plain plinth: entrance porch off-centre to left under central gable. Chamfered jambs to doorway, low, triangular head in stone lintels; trefoil above, parapet gable with cross-gablet apex and projecting kneelers. Trefoil-head lancets in sides; 4-panel door at back, 3 in top half. To right steps down to cellar, with iron cover; above 3-light casement window, 2-light to right, and beyond long C20 metal window. To left of porch 2 three-light casement windows: first floor one 2-light casement per bay; all windows wooden with cambered heads except C20 one. Parapet gables over front: plain brick chimneys. Lower wing to right small 4-pane timber window, with boarded door under cambered arch beyond: above low, 3-light wooden window. A single-storey wing projects at right-angles, containing garage and stores: part at end lofted. Internally, hall runs across house: panelled, segmental arch half- way back, single-flight stair beyond with spiral balusters, moulded handrail. Panelling on wall: exposed timber-framing to first floor on both sides, with heavy chamfer to arris of main posts. Bolection-moulded door and frame and 6-panel door on first floor; smallest panels in centre. (V.C.H. Gloucestershire, Vol.X, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO7683718231