Achards

SO 8403-8503 RODBOROUGH BATH ROAD (east side)

15/94 Achards (previously listed as The Archards) 28.6.60

GV II

Large detached house. Early C18 on older site; extensive C19 and C20 restorations. Random rubble limestone with roughcast render; rendered brick-rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic and cellar; C20 rear additon and linking section to barn to north (q.v.). Front: 7-window fenestration grouped 2:3:2, all stone cross windows with hoodmoulds except 2 ground floor sashes to right with plain keyed architraves. Two cellar 2-light chamfered mullioned casements below sashes in stone plinth. C20 hipped roofed porch left of centre; gabled C19 roof dormers at each end of hipped and sprocketed roof with modillion eaves cornice. Irregularly coursed exposed quoins. Two ridge-mounted chimneys. South end: lean-to conservatory with 2 cross windows to upper above. Rear: cross windows to left part of elevation as to front. C20 altered rear wing is not of special interest. Lower- roofed addition at north end has various C20 alterations. Blocked cross window above. Interior: open well staircase with splat balusters appears altered or repositioned in C19. Various classical fireplaces said to have come from Bristol. A 1797 view illustrates Achards with a large gabled part at south end, possibly a C16 or C17 house to which the early C18 building was attached. (N.M. Herbert, 'Rodborough' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 218-234)

Listing NGR: SO8411403488