Wintersfold And The Gables Including Adjoining Wall To South

SO 8600-8700 MINCHINHAMPTON WELL HILL, Minchinhampton Town (east side)

19/298 Wintersfold and No 5 (The Gables) including adjoining wall to south 28.6.60

GV II

Two attached houses. Mid and late C17; extensive late Cl9 and C20 alterations to No 5 (The Gables). Coursed and random rubble limestone; ashlar and rubble chimneys; stone slate roof. Two- storey with attic, floor levels raised in No 5; double depth plan. Front: 3 full gables, left in larger squared rubble of late C17, altered doorway and window to ground floor, upper floor 16-pane sash and 2-light chamfered mullioned attic window with leaded iron casement. Two full gables to right partly rebuilt in major alterations, mullioned and cross-windows all C20; reset C17 oval windows in gables. Fine doorway to No 5 (The Gables) is also C20 with moulded architraves and bold shell hood on carved brackets. Attached wall runs to right with blocked segmental arched coachway and round arched pedestrian doorway. Rear: extensive additional range to No 5, Wintersfold incorporating former dovecote with 8 rows of pigeon holes with perch shelves in gables, later fenestration inserted, 2-light to attic and 3-light below being mullioned; altered windows to ground floor mainly C20. Tall chimney with moulded cap to north gable of former dovecote. Interior: Wintersfold contains late C17 dog-leg staircase with moulded handrails and turned balusters. Extended collar roof structure in front part. Originally built as weavers' houses, the dovecote possibly being associated with the Delameres manor, later replaced by the Lammas (q.v.). (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184- 207)

Listing NGR: SO8717000607