Chesterhill House

SO 8201-8301 WOODCHESTER CONVENT LANE (east side)

18/216 Chesterhill House

II

Large detached house. c1790 for Lord Ducie. Coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings; coursed rubble chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey with cellar; small 2-storey addition on south side. West front: 3-window fenestration, all sashes with stone lintels; tall 12-pane to ground floor, 20-pane to upper floor. Central doorway with flat hoodmould, part glazed door and rectangular light over. Projecting eaves to hipped roof. East front: symmetrical sash window fenestration with flat hoodmoulds; two outer bowed 15-pane sashes to ground floor; three sashes to upper floor, central 12-pane, outer 20-pane. Central 2-light chamfered mullioned cellar casement. Sides have asymmetrical sash fenestration below central eaves-mounted chimney with moulded cap, north side having one bowed sash with brass frame and glazing bars. Late C19 off-centre brick addition to south side with sashes. Interior: C19 staircase but earlier landing with small central oval well. Simple central skylight. Good late C18 marble fireplace brought from elsewhere. Occupied by Lord Ducie's agent, John Morton, in the 1830s. Later the residence of Catholic writers Henry William Wilberforce and Matthew Bridges. (W.J. Sheils, 'Woodchester' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 294-304.)

Listing NGR: SO8392601236