Ashleworth Manor

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ASHLEWORTH WHITE END SO 8025-8125 7/26 Ashleworth Manor 10-1-55 II* House. Said to be circa 1460, for Abbot Newbury of Bristol, but may be a little later; mid C19 probably by and for T. Fulljames; 1903 by W.B. Wood. Close studded timber frame, rendered panels, stone plinth; Sussex bond brickwork; tiled roof. 'H'-plan, 5 windows wide, central porch entrance side, wings 2 and 3 rooms deep, 2 1/2 storeys; single storey service wing one end. Front elevation to road: 'E' plan, whole jettied, 3 gables: windows all ovolo moulded externally, hollow chamfer internally, iron opening lights (probably all C19); all lights leaded. Ground floor storey- height panels, heavy corner and main posts, integral nib, curved brace to beam over. On right 4-light mullion and transom window, 3 mortices in beam over for original window head; main beam projects to support jetty. In set back to left 3-light casement, sill lowered, 3 mortices in beam over: blocked window on left against porch. Porch open on ground floor: bench seats each side, two 2- light open windows in sides, moulded ceiling beams; moulded door surround, original double-boarded door, blind panelling front, 'Y' knocker, Tudor arch with leaf decoration to spandrels. To left, curved brace to sill, 2-light casement, main post with central nib close to corner wing. Four-light casement in left wing: to left brick wall to yard, boarded door, brick gable with timber framed truss, king post with herringbone braces (1903 addition). First floor: moulded sill at jetty, applied moulded mid rail, framing 2 panels high between windows: curved braces corner posts to sill in each gable, moulded cambered tie beam to end gables, straight to centre, moulded collar to end gables, plain barge boards. Right gable 4-light casement, single light over to loft. Blocked window left return: 3-light casement in recess, top of brace to main post left, largely hidden by porch room: blocked windows in returns to porch, 2-light casement to front, 2 slits in studs to loft over, for ventilation. To left 2-light casement, brace to main post adjoining wing. Four-light casement to front of wing, single light to attic over. Front of left return plain brick. Brick chimney, moulded cap, nib to side, on right against cross wing (probably C17 brickwork): brick chimneys on ridge and left return left wing. Right return, jettied: ground floor 2 arch braces, to main posts, 3-light mullion and transom window added 1903 in place of door: to right 3-plank C15 door, carved top and bottom rails, reused from inside house: door off quarter landing up 4 stone steps. Blocked window to right. First floor moulded sill, curved braces to end posts, moulded mid rail as front, but plain under windows for applied sills for canted oriels, since removed. Three-light casement left, mortices for 2 brackets beneath; two 2-light casements to right, mortices for single bracket below: centre window probably C18. Interior: hall wide stone fireplace, Tudor arch with hollow chamfer, 1662 cast-iron fireback. Ceiling quartered with heavy moulded beams, exposed moulded joists. Exposed moulded beams in right wing: c1850 stone fireplace in front room, 4-centred arch, buttresses. To left, both floors, plain chamfer to lateral beam, angled beam across with mortices for close studding: stairs 1903, splat balusters; doors mid C19, four vertical panels with cover strips, original brass locks. Room over hall, wall to porch room has been removed: moulded main beams, cambered across building: plastered ceiling with hidden, unmoulded joists. Wide stone fireplace, flat lintel, plain chamfer. Similar beams in wing on right: moulded main posts. Angle strut trusses to original roof, 2 pairs purlins, ridge to cross wing, curved, thin wind braces in 2 tiers. Medieval house cross wing, hall range and porch: probably originally extended one bay further to left on site of left cross wing. This may have been demolished before C19. Mid C19 front of left cross wing built, as exact copy externally to front of right. 1903, left wing extended to rear in timber framing, low service wing added to left, single-storey scullery wing on right demolished. (1903 drawings and C19 photographs at house; D. Verey Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO8189325734

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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