The Old Valley Inn

SO 9002-9102 CHALFORD VALLEY CORNER

14/100 The Old Valley Inn (previously listed as Valley Inn in Minchinhampton CP) 28.6.60 II

Former mill owner's house, now detached house. Late C17; early Cl9 addition. Coursed and random rubble limestone; artificial stone rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with cellar and attic; wing to rear forms L-plan. South east front: 2 full gables. Fenestration grouped 2:1:2 on upper floor, originally all 2-light chamfered mullioned casements with continuous hoodmoulds, partly replaced in mid C20 by timber casements to left with plain stone lintels, part of hoodmould removed. Central doorway with slightly cambered pointed arch. Two-light attic casements in each gable with blocked oval windows above, all with hoods. Rebuilt gable end chimneys. South west side: 2 blocked small single-light windows in gable end. C20 inserted upper floor doorway with glazed door and steel stairway. Rear: left full gable of earliest part of house has single-window fenestration below, all 2-light with hoodmoulds. Timber casement fenestration to rear wing with tall canted bay window to north east gable end. Hipped roof to brick- built porch in angle with front range. Interior: between pairs of 2-light windows on ground floor is deep slot, possibly associated with weaving process. Generally interior much restored and altered, especially during use as public house. Upon construction of nearby Thames and Severn Canal became an inn, named Clothiers Arms by 1820 but known as Valley Inn by 1931. Originally the mill owner of Valley Mills residence. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40)

Listing NGR: SO9039602492