Horsley Court

ST 8298-8398 HORLSEY NARROWCUT LANE (west side)

20/131 Horsley Court

GV II

Large detached house. c1690; altered and enlarged c1820; central tower added c1850. Random and coursed rubble limestone, mostly roughcast rendered; ashlar and brick rebuilt chimneys; stone and Welsh slate roof. Two-storey with attic front range with central 3-storey tower. Two-storey rear wing and attached cider house. Front: central tower projection with rusticated quoins and moulded eaves to hipped roof; single window to each face, one 2-light with pointed heads, others sashes; one round arched sash to upper floor. Central doorway with reset stone lintel inscribed 'G E W 1608'. Six-window sash fenestration, all 12-pane with plain architraves. Deep coved eaves. Six pedimented roof dormers with 9-pane sashes. Gable end chimneys, south rebuilt with 2 diagonal- set brick shafts. Rear: L-plan block mainly rebuilt c1820 but incorporating earlier masonry. Two tall 2-light ovlo moulded windows with hoodmoulds to each floor set below parapet gable with tall chimney. Similar 3-light windows in projecting wing to left. Attached cider house has 2 timber mullioned windows to ground floor, row of pigeon holes below eaves. Stone steps to loft doorway in gable end. Interior: original dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrail. Good delicate ceiling plasterwork in one room, realistic rose decoration and reeding. Most unusual feature is formerly removable ceiling to dining room, originally raised to create gallery when room used as court house. Matching recess retained in upper floor ceiling. Stone cider press with horse's harness in cider house. Dated stone door-lintel could be survival from previous house, initials being of Webb family of clothiers. Dovecote (q.v.) to south west and coach house (q.v.) to south. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: ST8392498166