Church Farmhouse

SO 8003 SW LEONARD STANLEY CHURCH ROAD (south side)

12/75 Church Farmhouse

28.6.60 II

Detached farmhouse., Dated 1688; early C18 and C19 additions. Coursed and random rubble limestone; ashlar to rear wing; artificial stone rebuilt chimneys; plain tile roof. Two-storey with attic; rear wing forms L-plan. Front: 2 gables, 3-window fenestration all chamfered mullioned casements; 3-light to ground and upper floors, separate hoodmoulds to ground floor, combined to upper floor. Single 2-light with hood in each gable and oval window above with lozenge decoration, left with initials I S, right with date 1688. Central doorway with flat timber porch hood on shaped brackets; C20 door. Early C19 addition to left has former segmental-arched doorway, now with C20 casement; segmental-arched small-paned casement above. West end: small off-centre blocked single-light, large area of ashlar patching below. Rebuilt gable- mounted chimney. Rear: front range has single 3-light casement to each floor; glazed door with timber lintel to right. Altered window and doorway to ground floor of rear wing; 3-light casement above with hoodmould. Two small attic lights to gable end; artificial stone rebuilt gable end chimney. Interior not inspected. (N.M. Herbert, 'Leonard Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos x, 1972, pp 257- 267)

Listing NGR: SO8034103276