Fennells Farmhouse
FENNELLS FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091314
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fennells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- FENNELLS FARMHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091314
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Fennells Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENNELLS 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:
- FENNELLS FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bisley-with-Lypiatt
- National Grid Reference:
- SO8805606302
Details
SO 80 NE
4/3
BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT
Fennells Farmhouse
II
Detached farmhouse. Late C16; late C17 south cross wing. Random
rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate and concrete plain
tile roofs. Two-storey with attic, L-plan. East side: parapet
gable end of cross wing projects forward to left with single-window
fenestration, 3-light to upper floor, 2-light to attic, both
chamfered mullioned casements withhoodmoulds; cross roll saddle
to gable. Earlier wing to right has C19 outbuilding and pentice
addition, both under large catslide to main roof; part open-
fronted supported on 2 tapering monolithic stone posts. Doorway
with chamfered opening, remains of decorative moulding stops,
hoodmould and plank door is in section of wall projecting forward
from main wall, possibly formerly gabled porch dismantled upon C19
alteration; 2-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement with
hoodmould to right of doorway. North end: parapet gabled with
chimney having moulded cap. Four single-light casements, 3
recessed cavetto moulded with hoodmoulds. West side: originally
2-window fenestration to earlier wing, one obscured by later lean-
to addition. Three-light ground floor and two 2-light upper floor
casements, all recessed cavetto mullioned with hoodmoulds. Parapet
gable end of cross-wing to right with gable-mounted chimney having
moulded cap. Two apparently C13 lancets reset at attic level, one
2-light. South side: front of cross-wing with 2 and 3-light
chamfered mullioned casements, 2 with hoodmoulds to ground floor.
Off-centre lobby-entry doorway with deep stone lintel and plank
door.
Interior: beams with stepped chamfer stops in late C16 part of
house. Recorded from 1573.
(N.M. Herbert, 'Stroud' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 99-145)
Listing NGR: SO8805606302
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132558
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 99-145
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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