Gilbert'S

Gilbert’s is a late 16th-century building, originally three cottages, which was later converted into a detached house. It was restored in 1939 by H. F. Trew. The building has a timber frame set upon a limestone plinth and partially half-timbered with coursed rubble limestone walls. It features ashlar chimneys and a plain tile roof. The plan was altered to an L-shape during the restoration. It is two storeys high with an attic.

The front gable has single-window fenestration in small framing, with curved braces to the framing and gable. There are 8-light leaded mullioned and transomed timber casements to the ground and upper floors, each with a plain-tiled hood. An attic window is also present. The east side features a 20th-century outshut to the left, with an off-centre doorway flanked by small leaded casements. A plank door is situated nearby, and a framed gabled roof dormer is above. The right half of the east side has smaller framing and a two-window arrangement, with a 20th-century doorway to the left, containing a plank door with a moulded cover strip and a tiled hood. A 6-light leaded mullioned and transomed timber casement is to the right of the door, with similar windows above it. An 8-light leaded mullioned and transomed casement is on the ground floor to the right, again with a matching window above. A 20th-century restored ridge chimney stack has a moulded cap.

The rear elevation has been restored in the 20th century and is half-timbered, with a jettied gable end to the right, extending down to the outshut. Single windows are featured within the gable, although others are scattered, all with leaded casements. A framed roof dormer is to the left of the gable. On the west side, a projecting blank stone gable end is visible on the back wing to the right, with a ridge-mounted chimney stack with a moulded cap. To the left of this is a two-storey ashlar chimney gable to the side of the front house, with a rebuilt shaft and moulded cap. This elevation has restored small framing with a single timber casement to the right of the chimney on each floor. The left side of the projecting wing is half-timbered with a single leaded casement in restored framing.

The interior has been extensively restored and altered, but one room retains Jacobean stencilling on very deeply chamfered timber beams with run-out stops. There are also some original stone fireplaces. H. F. Trew, who undertook many restorations of timber-framed buildings in Gloucestershire, was responsible for the 1939 restoration, and this is considered a good example of his work.