Court Lodge And Gateway Approximately 60M North-West Of Frocester Court

SO 7802 FROCESTER COURT ROAD (south end)

9/110 Court Lodge and gateway approx- imately 60m north-west of Frocester Court (previously listed as Gate- 10.1.55 house and cottages)

GV II

Lodge with attached gatehouse and dog kennels. Attached outbuildings. Late C15 or early C16 outbuildings; late C16 lodge; early C17 gatehouse and kennels. Random rubble limestone; artificial stone rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof, clay pantile to outbuilding. Timber framed gatehouse. Two-storey lodge with outbuilding to south west and gatehouse to north east end, kennels beyond. Two full parapet gables to sides of lodge, each with 2- light recessed chamfered mullioned casement and hood mould. Central doorway on south east side flanked by 2 single-light and one 2-light casement under combining hood mould. Outbuilding has parapet gabled end of monastic period with lean-to having reset quatrefoil vent. Cross gabled gatehouse supported on high base walls. Small-paned timber framing with decorative panels is all early C20 facsimile, moulded bressumer being original. Lead- latticed casement on south east side. Low dog-kennels adjacent to gatehouse with recessed chamfered single-light openings, cross roll saddle to gable end with quatrefoil vent. Interior not inspected. (Illustrated in Country Life, 20th May, 1905. N.M. Herbert, 'Frocester' in V.C.H. Glos, x, 1972, pp. 170-178; E.G. Price, 'Survivals of the Medieval Monastic Estate of Frocester' in Trans. B.C.A.S., 1980; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976).

Listing NGR: SO7867302971