Details
DEERHURST A38
SO 82 NE (east side)
3/30 Walton Hill Farmhouse
and attached farm buildings
II
Farmhouse and stables. C17, c1800, early-mid C19, minor
alterations mid C20. Roughcast on timber-framing or brick, painted
brickwork, English garden wall bond brick; tiled roofs. Three-bay
2½-storey lobby-entry house, extended 3-bay wing left, forming 'L',
further stable wing beyond, both 2 storeys. Main front of house:
roughcast; plinth, plain corner pilasters. Central, 9-panel door
up one stone step, under open wooden porch, pilasters, slim corner
columns, arches to 3 sides, dentils and moulded cornice; groined
vault. Each side 3-light casement window, small panes, Y tracery,
flat head, original iron opening lights, raised surround,
hoodmould. Above similar, shallower windows each end, 2-light in
centre. Wide, plastered eaves: central, rendered chimney. Right
return plinth, steps down to cellar; 2-light casement to attics;
plain barge boards. To left of main front projecting rendered
wing, 2-light and 3-light casements, flat-headed, wide opening to
ground floor, first floor plain, plain eaves parapet; parapet
gable left return. Set back on left plain rear of brick stable
wing: gable to road with cock in burnt headers. Circular openings
to loft of stables on opposite face: interrupted tie-beam trusses.
Interior of house: 6-panel doors with dummy fielding; stick-
baluster stairs, 2 semi-circular niches in wall. Three main posts
with jowelled heads exposed rear first floor. Dado panelling to
rear room in extension, panelled door to cupboard, semi-circular
head, dummy keystone, shaped shelves. Wide fireplace in kitchen
with keystone to head. Timber-framed lobby-entry house refaced and
extensively altered about 1800, probably being turned round. This
may have been in response to the main road being re-routed after
1794.
(V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol VIII, 1968)
Listing NGR: SO8922628156