Staverton Lea Farmhouse

SO 82 SE STAVERTON CHURCH LANE (south side) 6/87 Staverton Lea Farmhouse GV II Former vicarage, now house. 1819-1824, said to incorporate part of an earlier house, mid-late C20 verandah. Render, lined as ashlar, roughcast on left return, slate roof. Three-window square block, lower 2-window service wings, all 2 storeys. Left return, facing garden: terrace, open verandah, 4 iron poles, corrugated perspex hipped roof. Behind, each side double French doors, up one stone step, small panes; between a blind window recess. Above 6-pane sashes each end, blind window recess in centre. Wide eaves, pyramid roof, external chimney on left return, central chimney below apex. Entrance front, plinth; blind opening left, 2-light casement (actually same as French doors to left return, but with sill and no steps). Four-panel door, up 2 stone steps, side lights, 3-light rectangular light above, each light with a St Andrew's cross. Heavy Doric single-storey porch, knotted wreaths on frieze, moulded cornice. Above blind wider opening, two 16-pane sashes, wide eaves, pyramid roof. Slightly set back to right lower wing, plinth, 4-pane sash ground floor, 16-pane first with lower iron railing to front. Hipped roof. Large chimney behind. Forms group with Church and Old Manor (q.v.). (V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol. VIII, 1968)

Listing NGR: SO8897923539