BURY COURT FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078523
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: BURY COURT FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: BURY COURT FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078523
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: BURY COURT FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BURY COURT FARMHOUSE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BURY COURT FARMHOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Redmarley D'abitot
National Grid Reference:: SO 75973 32851

Details

REDMARLEY D'ABITOT - SO 73 SE

6/138 Bury Court Farmhouse

2.10.54

II*

Farmhouse. C12, C17, C18, C19. Rough render to brickwork or stonework: Flemish bond brickwork to rear wing: tiled roof. Five bay front, 2½ storeys, one room deep: later parallel rear wing, 2 storeys. Entrance front: C12 section on left. Boarded door, down one stone step, elliptical arch over, rounded edge. To right flat headed window, single light. Slight projection for last 2 bays: single-storey gabled porch, boarded door up 2 stone steps, double ovolo eaves and base to pediment; triangular light in base of latter. Three-light mullion and transom window to right, under cambered arch. First floor: 4-light mullion and transom window slightly right of centre, 3-bay section: slight projection far right end; single-light window, cambered head; 3-light mullion and transom with cambered head. Dentil eaves throughout: 4 rooflights: roof on right projects beyond gable on timber bracket. Left return: set back brick gable to leanto. Right return: front gable rendered. Large, projecting chimney base, wall on right aligned therewith: 3-light mullion and transom windows to ground and first floors. Three star-plan brick flues, on left, beginning below eaves, with C19 brick cap. On right, brick gable, 3-light mullion and transom windows with cambered brick arches to ground and first floors: plain brick string course. Chimney in valley between gables. Interior: to right large fireplace with elliptical timber lintel: bar and pyramid stops to ceiling beam chamfers. To left studded, boarded door with heavy iron hinges to 3-bay undercroft, down stone steps. Semi-circular headed windows in end and front walls, 2 lancets in rear. Slightly-pointed ribbed quadripartite vaulting, off wall shafts with moulded capitals, flanked short, corbelled columns at top. Above, walls of first floor hall survive: semi- circular head to doorway off stairs. Eaves raised, probably C18: interrupted tie-beam truss in right part roof, 2 pairs purlins, square ridge. Six-panel doors to stairway, ground floor. An important medieval survival, enlarged C17. (M. Wood, The English Medieval House, 1965; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; V.C.H. Worcestershire, Vol III, 1913.)

Listing NGR: SO7597332851

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 125956
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Wood, E , The English Medieval House, (1965)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.