Farleys End Farmhouse

SO 71 NE ELMORE FARLEYS END

1/57 Farleys End Farmhouse

GV II

Detached farmhouse. C15, possibly earlier; C19 alterations. Timber-framed, mostly rebuilt in brick; clay plain tile roof; brick chimneys. 4-bay; central 2-bay former hall, now with cross passage; single-storey with attic; 2-storey with attic at west end. Front: scattered fenestration with some timber-framing; rebuilt in brick to right, all rendered; segmental headed plank door and casement to right; 3 casements to left and central high level staircase casement; 2 gabled roof dormers to left, 1 with leaded casement; central brick ridge chimney. East end: half-hipped with projecting brick chimney stack; Cl9 sash to upper floor. Back: scattered fenestration in rebuilt brick wall, mostly segmental arched; 2 doorways with plank doors and casement between; altered C20 casement with concrete lintel to left; small mid-level staircase casement to right; at right end attached stable with segmental headed door and pitching hole over. West end: small attic casement above attached stable; segmental headed stable door with loft casement above. Interior has 5 pairs of crucks with cambered collars and massive curved windbraces in roof; former open hall has inserted C17 floor; 2 spiral staircase also dated from C17 alterations, 1 replaced in Cl9. Originally the manor house of Farley manor, in the ownership of Gloucester Abbey. Part of group of 3 contemporary cruck-framed buildings: barn and outbuilding, (q.v.). (N. W. Alcock, Cruck Construction: An Introduction and Catalogue, 1981; C. R. Elrington, 'Hardwicke' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp. 178-188; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean. 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO7715215235