Main Range Of Farm Buildings And Barn At Wishanger Farm

SO 90 NW MISERDEN WISHANGER

5/180 Main range of farm buildings and barn at Wishanger Farm

GV II

Main range of farm buildings with drive-through porch, cartsheds and barn. Barn dated 1852, main range dated 1858, both for Julius Partridge. Coursed rubble limestone; Welsh slate roofs. Main west-facing farm building range with return section at north end forming drive-through porch. Two-bay cartshed to north links with barn to west with north and south porches and south outshut. West front of main range: 3 gables with large 3-centred arched ground floor doorway, 2 with sliding doors, central now blocked with casement; Tudor arched loft doorway with hoodmoulds; Tudor-arched casement in each gable, 2-light to slightly larger central gable. Two further Tudor arched doorways, each with loft casement above. Drive through porch to left has large openings with timber-lintels. South end: moulded parapet gable to end of main range with large blocked 2-light window with trefoil heads. Datestone in gable apex. Barn: parapet gabled porches with 4-centred doorways. Two- light Tudor arched casement above each wth hoodmould. Datestone inscribed: 'J P MDCCCLII'. Outshut with catslide roof to right of south porch with parapet south-facing gable having 2-light Tudor arched casement. Parapet gable barn ends, west with Tudor arched loft doorway. Interiors not inspected. C20 cartshed running south from barn is not of special interest. Forms part of important planned farm building group with contemporary granary and cartshed (q.v.) to west of main range. (W.J. Sheils, 'Miserden in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 47-56)

Listing NGR: SO9209209550