Great Cumberwood is a Grade II listed building in the Tewkesbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1955. Farmhouse.
Great Cumberwood
- WRENN ID
- eastward-timber-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tewkesbury
- Constituency
- Forest of Dean MP: Matt Bishop (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1955
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Great Cumberwood, Tirley
- OS grid reference
- SO 842 297
- Coordinates
- 51.96561, -2.23021
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Great Cumberwood is a farmhouse dated 1627, with the name "JOHN BROWNE" inscribed on a plaque above the door on the north-west front. The north-west front was rebuilt around 1800, and the building features rendered blue lias and timber-framing with a red tile roof and brick stacks. It has a U-shaped plan and is two storeys high with an attic and a cellar beneath the right-hand wing.
The north-west front has a triple gabled design with three windows; the ground floor has two 16-pane sash windows, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes, all set within beaded architraves. There is a 20th-century four-light window with horizontal glazing bars on the lower left and three-light windows with horizontal glazing bars in the attic. A fielded six-panel door is located off-centre to the left and is accessed by two steps, topped with a flat canopy. The right-hand wall features 16-pane sashes, and there are early 19th-century part-glazed double doors with decorated marginal glazing that includes a grisaille landscape at the top. A decorative cast iron surround with a canopy is missing. There is a similar door at the back of the courtyard, which is now partially blocked and reused as a window. Above it is a three-light casement with glazing bars.
Rendered tie beams are visible in the gable-end of the right-hand wing. The building has an axial stack and a projecting stack from the gable-end of the rear right-hand wing. Inside, the rear right-hand room features 17th-century panelling with simple painted margins around each panel, and a fine Jacobean overmantel above the fireplace. The central part of the overmantel has a blind arcade of three archways with split turned decoration and geometric relief decoration. The blind archways are highlighted with orange marbling at the centre and grey marbling outside, accented in gold. The building also contains deep-chamfered tie beams with ogee stops and a 17th-century open-well staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Great Cumberwood receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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