Wishanger Farmhouse
WISHANGER FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091227
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Wishanger Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WISHANGER FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091227
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Wishanger Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WISHANGER FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WISHANGER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Miserden
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92078 09478
Details
SO 90 NW MISERDEN WISHANGER
5/178 Wishanger Farmhouse
28.6.60
GV II*
Large detached house. Mid-late C16, early C17 porch; west addition c1721. Restored 1868 for Sir John Rolt. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. L- plan house, 2-storey with attic. Two-storey west range. Front: earlier part of house to right with central 2-storey parapet gabled porch with attic. Narrow attenuated pilaster strips to moulded square-headed opening. Continuous drip course above and to upper floor 3-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement; 2-light with hoodmould to attic. Escutcheon of arms and angled sundial, latter dated 1721, possibly the date for addition of west range. Projecting chimney to left side of porch is corbelled out at upper floor level; shaft has moulded cap. Three-light ground floor and two 2-light upper floor recessed cavetto mullioned casements to each part of elevation either side of porch. Chimneys to each gable end of front range, each with diagonal shafts and moulded caps. Three-window fenestration to higher range to left, all 2- light chamfered mullioned casements, leaded to upper floor, ground floor casements with continuous hoodmould rising over smaller 2- light to right, oval window above - this presumably a doorway originally. Rear: rear wing has diagonal offset buttresses, this wing possibly representing the earliest part of the house. Single- window fenestration to gable end of wing, 3-light to ground and upper floor, 2-light to attic, all recessed cavetto mullioned. Inscription tablet reads: 'RESTAURAVIT / JOHANNES ROLT MILES / PER TEMPUS DOLORIS / ANNO DOMINI MDCCCLXVIII'. Chimney gable with paired diagonal shafts to west side of wing. Mixed mullioned fenestration to rear of main range, ground floor lean-to with 2- light trefoil headed casement. East end: mullioned fenestration, mostly C19 restored. Interior: room to rear has moulded Tudor arched fireplace with lozenge and flower decorated stops. Most of house refitted in C19. Barn and stable (q.v.) to south west of house is linked by round archway. (W.J. Sheils, 'Miserden' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 47-56; and D. Verey,, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO9207809478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132737
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 47-56
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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