Willsbury Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Forest of Dean local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Willsbury Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- dim-oriel-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Forest of Dean
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Willsbury Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates from the 16th, 18th, and 19th centuries. It features a rendered exterior and a plain tile roof with gable stacks, including a large external stack on the right. The house is tall and gabled, with a projecting cross-gabled wing at the back left, likely serving as a staircase. Part of the main block is a parallel range unit, and there is a 20th-century extension to the left that is not included in the listing. Significant modifications were made to the original structure in the 18th and 19th centuries.
The entrance front has three storeys with irregular window placement. There are two 6-pane sash windows roughly centered on the second floor, above two 12-pane sashes, one of which is located far right. On the ground floor, there are three 12-pane sashes and a 6-panel door set under an arch with a plain tympanum, keystones, pilasters, and impost blocks, positioned off-centre to the left. Between the windows on the right, there is a plain deep round-arched niche featuring a triple keystone.
At the back, the parallel range unit has three storeys, with a 12-pane sash over a 16-pane sash on the left, a 20th-century glazed door in a segmental keyed arch, and a low-set 3-light stone chamfered mullion casement without a drip over a 4-light similar casement that has a stopped drip. Both of these windows include inner diagonal saddle bars. To the right, a turret rises to 3½ storeys and features a small 2-light stone chamfered mullioned casement above 2-light 19th-century casements at the second and first floors, with a ground floor opening leading to a basement that has a 16th-century 4-centre arch. The interior has not been inspected, but the ground floor room to the left of the entry has a stone floor and a large 16th-century bressummer fireplace.
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