Gartage Hall

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote 844-1/4/462 (North side) 29/03/90 No.117 Gartage Hall (Formerly Listed as: HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote No.117 Gartage Hall)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Mid to late C17, remodelled and extended in late C19 or early C20. Timber frame with plastered panels set on a plinth of squared stone in courses; in late C19 the framing exposed for picturesque effect by the removal of the original render; steeply pitched slate roof with lead rolls to hips and ridge and boxed eaves supported on widely spaced timber brackets along the front; a central, axial, brick stack; C19 and C20 additions at rear mostly rendered with hipped and gabled tiled roofs; added onto the front in late C19 a timber-framed entrance porch built of old timbers and with a shallow hipped slate roof. PLAN: the original house a block of two rooms with a central lobby entered from added porch and leading to a cross passage on the left-hand side of the axial stack; extensions at rear may incorporate earlier service rooms. EXTERIOR: two storeys; the front and sides of the main block are box framed with sill, first floor and top plates and straight tension braces to the corner posts on both floors and thin, close set studs; the front almost symmetrical. In the centre the added two-storey framed porch; originally the upper floor of the porch supported on two round timber posts at the outer corners but on the ground floor the sides later infilled with leadlight windows and the front with an outer entrance doorway with ovolo-moulded frame and leaded sidelights; boards applied to the first-floor bressumers to the porch and the bases of the first-floor corner posts are carved with scrolls in bas-relief; on the first floor of the porch on each side a two-light, diamond leaded casement; on the ground floor to right of porch a late C19 or early C20 bay window; to left of porch a late C19 narrow horned sash, further left a C18, three-light, rectangular leaded, wrought-iron casement probably C18; on the first floor to each side of porch a similar three-light casement; on the ground floor of each of the end walls of the block a late C19 bay window and on the first floor a C18, three-light, rectangular leaded,

wrought-iron casement. INTERIOR: largely refitted in late C19/early C20 but C17 features include the following; inside the porch early C17 reused carved panels; staircase with twisted balusters and a landing in the upper level of the porch; left-hand room, probably the parlour of the original house, has deeply chamfered ceiling beams with hollow step stops; the right hand room, probably the hall-kitchen, has chamfered ceiling beams with straight cut stops and a large fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and chamfered timber lintel. Both a notable example of the final phase of the timber-framed tradition in the Vale and of the centralised lobby-entry plan type.

Listing NGR: SO8744217318