Granary Approximately 30 Metres North West Of The Mansion

SO 80 NE BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT LYPIATT PARK

4/97 Granary approximately 30m north west of the Mansion

28.6.60

GV I

Former granary, now guest house and studio. C13. Dressed coursed and squared limestone; stone slate roof. Rectangular with low undercroft. Parapet gabled ends, north with fine 2-light Early English window below gabled hood with trefoil apex recess. Off- centre trefoil headed light below. Low diagonal corner buttresses interrupt boldly projecting anti-rat course. Below this a canted recess with ox's head grain outlet. Two trefoil-headed lights to south end; 2 undercroft openings below combining relieving arch. Off-centre pointed arched doorway with hoodmould on east side set immediately to right of central buttress; flight of stone steps with dog kennel recess beneath. Undercroft doorway on west side. Interior: altered to form guest house, retaining original granary floor position. A very early granary illustrating the importance of this building type in the medieval period. (Illustrated in Country Life article, 1st December 1900 and M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937. N.M. Herbert, 'Stroud' in V.C.H. Glos xi, 1976, pp 99-145; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8853505875