Brookend House, Gate Piers And Boundary Wall

WOOLASTON BROOKEN ST 59 NE 10/276 Brookend House, gate piers and boundary wall (formerly listed as 7.8.54 Woolaston Inn) - II Dwelling. Early C18. Rendered, and ashlared to front and right gable, concrete tile roof, gable stacks and stack right of centre. L-plan, with small, low 2 storey wing return, left. 2½ storeys, 3 + 1-windowed, 3-light casements with transoms and brick cills, windows set lower at right hand end, and blocked opening presumed original entrance, off-centre left. Gable return, right has 2-light C19 casement to roof space; back slope with 3 C20 dormers. Door, opposite gate piers, 3 vertical moulded panels over 2 flush, in a moulded stone architrave. Pair of square sands- stone gate piers with elliptical ball finials to ogee square base and moulded capping, moulded base: inscription IWM : 1713 on piers (refers to James and Mary Woodroffe, died 1728); side irons only of former overthrow, C20 gates, flanking walls c 1 metre high and flat sandstone capping, full width of site to left, and returning to facade, right. Interior considerably modified, has 2-purlin roof, a tight spiral stair from first floor to attic, some chamfered beams, and a vaulted 'cellar' in wing back. Built for a member of the Woodroffe family, well established in the parish in C17 and C18, then became at one stage the Woolaston Inn, VCH records it as such by 1800. (VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X)

Listing NGR: ST5940999701