Humphries End House

SO 8206-8306 RANDWICK HUMPHRIES END

14/210 Humphries End House (previously listed as 28.6.60 Humphries End)

GV II

Detached house. Early-mid Cl?; east wing rebuilt 1699 for W.B. Random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic; cross-wing to east end with cellar. East end: main frontage of 1699 addition, 3-window fenestration, all 2- light chamfered mullioned casements under combined hoodmould; 2 gabled attic dormers. North side: gable end of east range to left with single-window fenestration, all recessed chamfered 2- light casements with hoodmoulds. Blocked attic oval dated and with initials. Earlier range runs to right, original cross- passage doorway roughly central, now blocked but with hoodmould rising over deep stone lintel, linking with 5-light casement to right. Present doorway to left appears early C19 with segmental timber porch hood and 4-panel door. Two upper floor timber windows with leaded iron casements and timber lintels. Reset oval to loft also leaded. Two gabled roof dormers with timber casements. South side: gable end of east range to right, projecting chimney stack having paired ashlar shafts and moulded caps. Outshut in rear angle of this range, catslide roof to left extended above single 2-light casement to each floor. Remainder of range to left has mullioned fenestration, mostly restored. Interior: original cross-passage removed. Main chimney to west end has adjacent stone spiral staircase. Barn to east (q.v.). (Illustrated in W.G. Davie and E.G. Dawber, Old Cottages... in the Cotswold District, 1905; and N. M. Herbert, 'Stonehouse' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp. 267-289)

Listing NGR: SO8314606064