Brewhouse, In Garden, Adjoining Snowshill Manor

SNOWSHILL SNOWSHILL VILLAGE SP 0833-0933

12/49 Brewhouse, in garden, adjoining Snowshill Manor (formerly listed as 4.7.60 part of Snowshill Manor with dove- cote and garden buildings)

GV II Former dairy and still room, later house, now houses exhibition. Probably C16, C17, altered and extended Cl9, 1919-'23 by and for C.P. Wade. Squared stone in courses of varying heights, in part of wall brought to courses, stone. slate roof. Two room, 1 1/2 storey block, with lower, narrower single room 1 1/2 storey extension on end at slight angle. Facade to house: on left stone slab on end supports as bench seat; to right boarded door with moulded cover strips, flat Tudor arch, chamfered jambs. Gabled wooden bellcote on right on brackets. Blocked window; two 2-light mullioned windows with external shutters, vertical joint for blocked window to right. Parapet gables, cross-gablet apices. To right flight of 10 stone steps against gable, rising to boarded door set back behind eaves. To right wall set back, wide boarded door, flat Tudor arch, chamfered arris. Long wooden dovecote attached to wall, 15 boxes in 2 tiers. Above dormer, small-pane Yorkshire sliding sash, projecting boarded gable: chimney behind ridge. Rear elevation main part, shallow projecting section on right, offset back to wall above. Square hole high up to left: blocked wide arched doorway at left end, small pane window in semi- circular head, ovolo surround, keystone, raised spandrels, square hoodmould dropping each side to springing of arch. Buttress to left. Above three gabled stone dormers, parapet gables: left 2 with 3-light mullioned windows, hoodmoulds; right with ridge chimney, diamond-set brick top. Interior: left room wide fireplace, timber lintel, 2 ovens off, spiral stone stair on left, copper on right. Right room workbench on end wall with rows of small drawers over. First floor rooms divided by close-studded timber-framed partition forming truss: truss in room on right with tie beam cut away: one pair purlins, curved windbraces. Balcony in right room added by Wade, balusters to handrail reused from rack in cowhouse. Converted by Wade into dwelling for himself. (Country Life, Vol. LXII, 1927; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Cotswolds, 1970: National Trust guidebook, 1985)

Listing NGR: SP0965833848