Lullingworth House The Cottage

Lullingworth House and The Cottage is a large detached house dating to the 17th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. The construction combines limestone ashlar, brickwork, and a stone slate roof. The layout evolved from a 17th-century core and late 18th-century additions, developing into a double-banked principal form and associated service courtyard. The house is mainly two storeys with attics.

The garden front, to the southwest, features blind arched openings, each containing a large 12-pane sash window. Above are three large 12-pane sashes and three hipped dormers. Two large, triple-shafted stacks topped with cappings and skirts are prominent features. A return to the left side is largely brick, with various window openings, including sash and casement styles. A notable feature is a 2-light chamfered-mullion stone casement window within the stack. One full cross-gable is present. A service wing extends to the left, connecting to The Cottage and incorporating a unit with Gothick windows – two 2-light windows with Y-tracery and leading, a flat, ogee-headed former door opening now boarded, and further leading. The main entrance front comprises two gabled units, an open-sided porch, and a wing at a right angle to the rear of the courtyard, with a swept-down roof and a small return gable to The Cottage. The rear of the main 17th-century block, overlooking the courtyard, displays two cross-gables. The fenestration is generally arranged with one window plus one window per bay.

At ground floor, the front features a recessed arched panel with a 12-pane sash porch and two small 2-light casements, set beneath a string course that spans over the flat, elliptical porch opening. A plank and fillet door is set within. The first floor has a large 12-pane sash window and a 3-light chamfer-mullion window with a hood. Similar casements with hoods are located on each gable. The return side presents further chamfer-mullion windows, both 2- and 3-light, and at ground floor a 4-light window with a transom. All stone mullioned casements are double-chamfered. The courtyard is enclosed by a brick wall with stone coping. To the extreme right is a small gabled unit above a garage door.

The interior is largely from the early 19th century. Features include numerous parallel doors within reeded doorcases, adorned with lion-head motifs. A mid-18th-century stone fireplace, likely originating from elsewhere in Painswick, is a significant feature, with an eaved architrave, a central recess carved with a panel of fruit amidst a leaf-decorated frieze, and an egg-and-dart moulding to the mantelshelf. Within the earlier part of the house is a stone fire surround shaped to a 4-centre arch. A open-well staircase has a mahogany swept handrail and late 20th-century turned balusters, with scrolled ends to the treads. The building’s complex design reflects three distinct building phases, with the most recent alterations, around 1900, undertaken by P R Mosley Horder.