Scar Hill

SO 70 SE NYMPSFIELD B4066 (east side)

1/321 Scar Hill

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Former lodge, now detached house. c1860 by Benjamin Bucknall for William Leigh. Coursed dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey; stair wing on south side. High Victorian Gothic style. South side: off-centre gabled stair wing with moulded coping, kneelers and finials; 2 single stair- lights with hoodmoulds; quatrefoil vent in gable apex. Mullioned and transomed ground floor window to left. Hipped coped porch hood in angle to right with octagonal corner column; small upper floor window above. Mullioned and transomed casement to right. Stone gutters on. shaped stone brackets. Central ridge-mounted chimney with cluster of 6 square shafts with weathered cap. Ends: parapet gabled with kneelers. Projecting chimney to west end with 3 square shafts; flanking ground floor single-light and upper floor 2-light casements. Mullioned and transomed casement to each floor at east end; quatrefoil vent above. Rear: off-centre gabled dormer with coping and finial, single and 2-light mullioned casements with combining hood and quatrefoil vent above. Ground floor 3-light casement. Lean-to addition to right is not of special interest. Interior: transverse stone arches in principal rooms to brick- vaulted ceilings. Stands on the western drive to The Mansion at Woodchester Park (q.v. Woodchester CP). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO7976201509