Wishanger Farmhouse

SO 90 NW MISERDEN WISHANGER

5/178 Wishanger Farmhouse

28.6.60

GV II*

Large detached house. Mid-late C16, early C17 porch; west addition c1721. Restored 1868 for Sir John Rolt. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. L- plan house, 2-storey with attic. Two-storey west range. Front: earlier part of house to right with central 2-storey parapet gabled porch with attic. Narrow attenuated pilaster strips to moulded square-headed opening. Continuous drip course above and to upper floor 3-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement; 2-light with hoodmould to attic. Escutcheon of arms and angled sundial, latter dated 1721, possibly the date for addition of west range. Projecting chimney to left side of porch is corbelled out at upper floor level; shaft has moulded cap. Three-light ground floor and two 2-light upper floor recessed cavetto mullioned casements to each part of elevation either side of porch. Chimneys to each gable end of front range, each with diagonal shafts and moulded caps. Three-window fenestration to higher range to left, all 2- light chamfered mullioned casements, leaded to upper floor, ground floor casements with continuous hoodmould rising over smaller 2- light to right, oval window above - this presumably a doorway originally. Rear: rear wing has diagonal offset buttresses, this wing possibly representing the earliest part of the house. Single- window fenestration to gable end of wing, 3-light to ground and upper floor, 2-light to attic, all recessed cavetto mullioned. Inscription tablet reads: 'RESTAURAVIT / JOHANNES ROLT MILES / PER TEMPUS DOLORIS / ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXVIII'. Chimney gable with paired diagonal shafts to west side of wing. Mixed mullioned fenestration to rear of main range, ground floor lean-to with 2- light trefoil headed casement. East end: mullioned fenestration, mostly C19 restored. Interior: room to rear has moulded Tudor arched fireplace with lozenge and flower decorated stops. Most of house refitted in C19. Barn and stable (q.v.) to south west of house is linked by round archway. (W.J. Sheils, 'Miserden' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 47-56; and D. Verey,, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO9207809478