Lower Buttersend Farmhouse

SO 72 NE HARTPURY BUTTERSEND LANE

4/42 Lower Buttersend Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse; C16, 17, 19, early C20; timber-framed, random rubble stone with ashlar to openings to cross wing, red brick to main wing front, English garden wall bond, end section main wing English bond brickwork, on stone plinth; stone slate roof to front main block, otherwise tiled. Main block and cross wing, porch in angle, leanto to rear; 2 storeys. Cross wing gable on right, continuous with porch gable. Plain plinth: double-chamfered flat-headed doorway on left, French doors: to right tall 3-light mullioned window, reserved hollow chamfer. First floor 2-light mullioned window to porch, 3 to cross wing, flat head, hollow chamfer. Windows offset slightly towards middle. In gables recessed chamfered lancet to porch, single-light window to cross wing. Parapet gables with cross-gablet apices. Plain brick chimney with irregular plan in centre cross wing; large brick chimney behind porch in main wing, one diamond-set flue. Main wing door blocked to form small window, wide window to right, smaller to left, mid C20 casements, all with segmental, brick-on-end arches with stone keystones. To left late C20 door and porch. Vertical joint on left in brickwork. First floor 3-light timber window on right, iron opening lights, 2-light to left. Brick chimney in centre of block, to rear. On back projecting single-bay timber-framed wing, 3-panel high, brick nogged, straight brace to wallplate. Internally, heavy timber doorframe, double chamfer, 3-centered head inside porch. Heavy chamfers to ceiling beams in ground-floor main block: solid-tread stairs down to cellar under left end. Back wall main block timber-framed. First floor 3 narrow sections of probably early C17 wallpainting in back part of cross wing, near ceiling level, one over window, one over former fireplace. Muted red, yellow and greys used scrolls with traces of lettering. In main wing exposed ceiling joists with slight chamfer in one room, ceiling quartered by beams in next; solid-tread stairs to loft. Roof trusses all tie-beam, collar and angle strut with 2 pairs butt purlins; square ridge member and slight, thin wind braces to main wing from open trusses, no ridge and curved braces to cross wing. Main wing 5 bays, excluding chimney, one closed truss, 4 bays to cross wing. Porch roof timbers mid-late C19. Appears to have been timber-framed house, with cross wing added or rebuilt in stone in early C17; front wall main block rebuilt late C19 or early C20 in brick. (Letter from Gloucester City Museum on wallpaintings.)

Listing NGR: SO7714125588