Hollytree Cottage And Front Garden Wall

BUCKLAND LAVERTON VILLAGE SP 0635-0735 10/19 Hollytree Cottage and front garden wall (formerly listed as Laverton 4.7.60 House Farmhouse) II Formerly farmhouse, now house. Shown as Laverton House Farm on O.S. map. C17, C18, altered late C20. Coursed, roughly squared stone: to right door in main wing alternate thick and thin courses; ashlar garden wall; Welsh slate roof. Two-window front, cross wing, one room deep, 1 1/2 storeys. To road, 3-light mullioned window with hoodmould, iron opening light: boarded door, moulded arris to frame, flat Tudor arch, deep stone lintel, hoodmould. Four-light window to right, hoodmould. Stonework changes shortly before corner, projecting gable to cross wing, 3-light casement, iron opening light. Above 2 gabled dormers main wing, 3-light casements; 2-light C20 metal window in cross wing, parapet gable over. Main block chimney on left gable and to right front door, both on ridge and rebuilt late C20 in artificial stone. Stump of chimney on ridge of cross wing, and from eaves on right return. Lower wing on left and extension behind crosswing not of special interest. Garden wall sits forward at left end house, runs up to gate opposite door, thence to corner of cross wing; stone coping. (W.G. Davie & E.G. Dawber, Old Cottages and Farmhouses in the Cotswold District, 1904, pl 43 with incorrect address)

Listing NGR: SP0736935446