Hartpury Court

SO 72 SE HARTPURY MURRELLS END ROAD

8/55 Hartpury Court

GV II

Farmhouse; mid C19; random rubble, some squared stones, brought to courses, ashlar dressings; later ashlar porch; tiled roof. Irregular plan, 'L' with wings; 2 storey, upper partly in roof. Facing road: windows hollow chamfered; gable on left, plain plinth, 3-light mullion and transom window, iron opening casement, ground floor, 2-light similar above, both with hoodmoulds. Slit in gable; parapet gable with deep kneelers, shallow projection. Right return 2 light mullioned windows with hoodmould ground floor; later single-storey ashlar porch in corner, single light window, square- headed door with deep hoodmould drops either side from string course below crenellated parapet. Above single-light window in small stone gable, 2-light in corner with leanto roof. Side-wall of wing projects on right, 2-light mullioned sash below, single- light in gable above, as other side of porch. Parapet gable on right; 2-flue ashlar chimney with moulded cap and base at junction of wings. Left return from first gable blank, set back a stone- roofed leanto with single-light window, with just beyond rear wall of leanto range parallel to road: single-light window. 4-flue ashlar chimney to main block beyond. Rear wall of leanto continued as link to former Roman Catholic chapel (q.v.), top stepped up over 4-centred arch, with iron gate in sunk spandrels with blank shields. House built by Cannings of Hartpury House (q.v.), to replace earlier dwelling, used as convent for nuns from France, 1794 to 1839. (Notes on Hartpury House, kept there).

Listing NGR: SO7804223614