Butler'S Court Farmhouse

BODDINGTON - SO 92 SW 7/1 Butler's Court Farmhouse II Farmhouse. Early C18; early C19, 1849 (datestone), altered late C19, mid C20. Flemish bond and English garden wall bond brickwork, latter of 2 periods, stone slate to tall block facing garden, otherwise tiled roofs. Three-window, 3-storey garden front, 2 rooms deep, reducing to 16 storeys at rear: one bay, 16 storeys on right, 2 storey wing on left to rear. Garden front: reddish Flemish bond brickwork changes to browner English garden wall bond just below head of first floor windows. Front now (1987) near symmetrical. On left 16-pane sash with flat, rubbed-brick arch, area of brown brick to left: 6-panel door, marked as double doors, bottom panels flush, sidelights, all under single-storey gabled porch, brick sill walls to sides, 2-bay open timber above, scalloped barge boards. Similar window to right. First-floor 16- pane sash each side, as below, 12-pane in centre: jamb of earlier window to left of left window. Second floor windows as first, but no lintels: dentil eaves. Two external chimneys on right return, paired diamond-set stacks on rear in left bay. To right of front single-bay dating from mid C20. Long wing at rear on left, with stone plinth, end elevation 2 stone lancet windows ground floor, paired above, datestone (1849) in apex. Stone windows said to be reused from demolished chapel. Garden front originally 2 storey, upper floor added in early C19 and windows altered. Fourth bay and 2-storey bay beyond demolished in 1960's and replaced by single- bay, 1½ storey wing. (V.C.H. Gloucestershire, VIII, 1968, p 192)

Listing NGR: SO9018124845