Walton Hill Farmhouse And Attached Farm Buildings

DEERHURST A38 SO 82 NE (east side) 3/30 Walton Hill Farmhouse and attached farm buildings II Farmhouse and stables. C17, c1800, early-mid C19, minor alterations mid C20. Roughcast on timber-framing or brick, painted brickwork, English garden wall bond brick; tiled roofs. Three-bay 2½-storey lobby-entry house, extended 3-bay wing left, forming 'L', further stable wing beyond, both 2 storeys. Main front of house: roughcast; plinth, plain corner pilasters. Central, 9-panel door up one stone step, under open wooden porch, pilasters, slim corner columns, arches to 3 sides, dentils and moulded cornice; groined vault. Each side 3-light casement window, small panes, Y tracery, flat head, original iron opening lights, raised surround, hoodmould. Above similar, shallower windows each end, 2-light in centre. Wide, plastered eaves: central, rendered chimney. Right return plinth, steps down to cellar; 2-light casement to attics; plain barge boards. To left of main front projecting rendered wing, 2-light and 3-light casements, flat-headed, wide opening to ground floor, first floor plain, plain eaves parapet; parapet gable left return. Set back on left plain rear of brick stable wing: gable to road with cock in burnt headers. Circular openings to loft of stables on opposite face: interrupted tie-beam trusses. Interior of house: 6-panel doors with dummy fielding; stick- baluster stairs, 2 semi-circular niches in wall. Three main posts with jowelled heads exposed rear first floor. Dado panelling to rear room in extension, panelled door to cupboard, semi-circular head, dummy keystone, shaped shelves. Wide fireplace in kitchen with keystone to head. Timber-framed lobby-entry house refaced and extensively altered about 1800, probably being turned round. This may have been in response to the main road being re-routed after 1794. (V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol VIII, 1968)

Listing NGR: SO8922628156