Gamage Hall

DYMOCK - SO 73 SW

5/61 Gamage Hall

II

Farmhouse. C17, early C18, mid C19; mid C20. Brick front, irregular bond on right ground floor, otherwise Flemish: right gable random rubble stone: rear left English garden wall bond brick, right rear wing random rubble stone ground floor, brick- nogged timber framing above. Tiled roof. Four-window front, single room deep on right, 2 on left (slightly wider), rear wing on right, all 2 storeys. Front: 6-panel front door right of centre, marked as double doors, under C19 gabled, single-storey open porch reusing C17 timbers. To right 4-light mullion and transom window, cambered brick arch. To left 2 sash windows, flat, splayed brick head, bricks intersecting in centre. First floor 4-light mullion and transom to right, 3-light over door, both with cambered brick arch. To left, 2 sashes as ground floor. Dentil eaves: gable chimney on ridge on right: large external chimney on left gable, surrounded by mid C20 leanto, rebuild of 2-storey single bay end to house following fire. Rear wing, stone steps to upper floor in angle with house. Internally, left wall of entrance hall timber framed: 6-panel fielded doors. On right wide chamfer to ceiling beam, pyramid bar stop. On left shutters to sashes, 2-panel door to rear room, reset turned balusters to stair landing, 2-panel door above. Roof remade in C19, king-post trusses with bolts on left, collar, tie beam and angle struts on right. Possibly timber- framed house rebuilt in stages. (The Rev. J. E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966.)

Listing NGR: SO7216031263