Kempley Court

SO 63 SE 4/131 2.10.54

KEMPLEY Kempley Court

GV II

Farmhouse. 1689 (datestone). Painted English bond brickwork front and sides: brick-nogged timber-framing rear: stone slate roof front, tiled rear. Six-window front, 2 rooms deep, 2 storeys. Symmetrical facade to drive: all windows mullion and transom. Half-glazed front door up 2 stone steps, 2 fielded panels below. Bolection-moulded surround, flat porch hood, ornate panelled soffit, on acanthus consoles. String course above cut as if semi-circular hood originally. Either side a 2-light window, flat, rubbed-brick arch: frames C20. To left 4-light window, plain chamfer internally, iron opening light, cambered brick arch over. To right similar window, but with 2 wide casements: shutters internally. Plain brick string course: first floor five 2-light windows, flat, rubbed-brick arches: 3-light on right: datestone in centre over front door. Open eaves, hipped roof. Right return fully brick, string course: chimney within envelope of building. Left return front brick, large external stack, tiled offsets: rear half rendered over. Rear elevation: ground floor framing renewed in painted brickwork, save for main posts. End of brick side wall exposed on left. Ground floor: blocked window, 2-light casement window, small window to right of centre: single- light casement. Half-glazed door, marginal lights, over 2 flush panels: covered gabled half-glazed mid C20 porch. Three-light mullion and transom timber to right, weatherboard over. First floor, framing 3 panels high to eaves: weatherboard on sill to left: 2-light casement above, weatherboard over, extends up to centre of building. Central part, 2-light casement low down on left, leaded lights, weatherboard over: possibly blocked window high above. To right C20 two-light casement: 2-light casement with weatherboard over on right. Above 3 gables: left 2 with 2 collars, weatherboard to lower, 2-light casement over in each. Right studs only, possibly originally central door, now 2-light casement with leaded lights. Two pairs purlins and square ridge to roofs. Interior not inspected. Forms group with barn and gateposts (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO6697330984