Boseley Court

SO 71 NW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN -

7/180 Boseley Court

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Farmhouse: ,about 1700; painted brick, irregular bond in main part, Flemish bond in left extension, tiled roof. Main house 7 windows wide, 2 rooms deep under single roof: 2 storeys plus attics. Entrance door under fifth window from right, 9 flush panels under cambered brick-on-end arch. Windows 4-pane wide sash. Third window from right blind on both floors, first first floor only. Vertical joint and square brick pilaster between sixth and seventh, last bay wide with further pilaster at corner. Plain string course at first floor level, boarded eaves, 3 hipped dormers, with 2-light casement windows. Roof gabled at right, hipped left: large chimney at ridge behind sixth window. Set back at right-hand end lower 2-storey brick wing with stone plinth: porch in corner. C20 window to ground floor, original 2-light casement to first with bars and shutters: stone steps up to door in gable. Behind a 4-bay single-storey wing at right angles containing cider mill. Internally narrow open-well main stairs with heavy moulded handrail and part spiral balusters. Two 3- panel doors at foot, semi-circular heads with dummy keystones, panelled reveals. First floor 3 original doors with alternate thick and thin boards. 2 slate troughs survive in dairy, with original boarded door. Cast-iron fireback dated 1699 in rear room on right. Circa 1904 photograph at house shows 2-light mullion and transom windows painted in blocked openings, and stone slate roof. Other windows by then sash. (Victoria County History, Gloucestershire X, 1972).

Listing NGR: SO7054415739