Residential Parlour Block and Extension, Old Place

The parlour block forms the eastern part of a 3 storey Elizabethan E-plan house with courtyard and walled forecourt enclosure to the SE front. The house comprises a main E-W range with projecting end wings. Largely ruinous, surviving without roofs, floors, windows or doors, except for the parlour block at the east, which has been reroofed, re-floored and re-windowed. Built of coursed white limestone with neatly squared corners and Forest of Dean stone dressings for the reinstated 3-light mullion windows in reinstated parlour wing. Slate roof to this part. Parlour reinstated to first floor level, remains of window embrasure and gable line evident, roof inserted. Internal returns of kitchen and parlour wings of 2 bays, walls not surviving above first floor. N elevation windowless, large lateral chimney and 2 corbelled chimneys, one at first and one at second floor. First floor cut by stairwell extension. Doorway at E connects parlour with service wing. N elevation of stairwell has 4 windows, staggered in line with the stair. W large window at 1st floor above a door. E elevation of parlour wing (and hall wing) single bay, gabled to right with windows to both first and second floors, flat 4-centred door and small window to side (both C21 reconstructions). Large projecting stack to left rising over parapet with mono-pitch roof behind. Internal elevation of parlour wing into roofless hall of 2 bays, windows to left, doorways to right and 2 light attic window.

Divided into 3 floors with the access via the E and W elevations of the original parlour block. Internal access to the later parlour extension on both ground and first floors. Timber floor and roof structures, and stair to the first floor. Spiral metal stair to second floor. Reinstated Forest of Dean fireplaces.