House And Wall To Front Garden, At Hownhall

SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (east side)

7/235 House and wall to front garden, at Hownhall 2.10.54

GV II

Farmhouse and wall to front garden; early C18. English bond brickwork, plain brick plinth, slate roof, lead hips and ridge. Five windows wide, one room deep, 2 storeys and attics: lower extension on right. Ten-panel front door, up 2 stone steps, bottom semi-circular: flat projecting timber hood with moulded edge. Two tall, 18-pane sash windows each side, moulded sills, flat rubbed-brick arches over: wide glazing bars on right only; cambered heads to cellar openings below. Plain brick string course over: first floor 5 windows as below, all narrow glazing bars. Flat, wide eaves. Two-light casement window to lean-to dormer in centre: roof hipped on left, similar dormer on left return with panelled brick chimney rising from eaves beyond in centre: roof gabled on right with plain brick chimney on ridge. Roof has 3 gables to rear, left projecting slightly. Garden wall to front house returns each end against it: square corner piers and central gateposts, rounded top to plinth to piers, moulded edge to stone capping. Gateway up 2 stone steps, gates since removed: brick nib in piers each side, scroll top, stone hinge blocks. Stone coping to walls, moulded outer edge, sweeps up to piers and house, ending in scroll. Mounting block with 5 stone steps to right of gateway. Interior: original L-hinges to front door: panelled shutters to front windows: moulded plaster cornice entrance hall and adjoining rooms, ground floor. Wreath to handrail to stairs at foot, sweeps up to landings: 3 turned balusters per tread, with panelled ends to each. Single, fielded panel to spandrel below bottom flight, soffit of flight above panelled. Dado panelling to stairs, matching handrail. Tall, semi-circular headed window to staircase. Forms group with farmbuildings, (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7273021740