WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236008
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1992
List Entry Name:: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL
Statutory Address:: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236008
Date first listed:: 17-Jan-1992
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Aug-2001
List Entry Name:: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL
Statutory Address 1:: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Westonbirt with Lasborough
National Grid Reference:: ST8641890287

Details

1386/7/10000 17-JAN-92

WESTONBIRT WITH LASBOROUGH WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE, HOLFORD BARNS AND ATTACHED SAWMILL (Formerly listed as: WESTONHOLME, THE BOTHY, MILL COTTAGE AND ATTACHED SAWMILL AND FARMBUILDINGS)

GV II

Bailiff's house, sawmill and farmbuildings. 1852-4; sawmill expanded 1881. Designed by E Rich, agent for the Westonbirt estate. Squared and coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; upper floor of granary range in rat trap bond brick; asbestos, corrugated iron, stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. PLAN: Westonholme, The Bothy and Mill Cottage form T-plan with Westonholm facing NE; sawmill range adjoins N side of cottages and then extends in long rectangular range to SW with right- angled return forming cartshed to SE; attached to rear of sawmill and at right angles to rear (SW) gable of cottages is the engine house connected by a throughway to the mill barn which is flanked by ranges to SW and NE making T-plan and which form a granary/cartshed block parallel and to the S of the cottages and sawmill; the latter granary/cartshed has been partly converted into housing, and is now known as Holford Barns. EXTERIOR: Cottages of one storey and attic with stone ashlar stacks. Westonholm has symmetrical 3-window range with flat stone arches over 2/2-pane sashes flanking gabled porch with carved barge boards and round-arched doorway, and 8/8 pane sashes in gabled half dormers; side elevations to cottages at rear have 8/8-pane sashes to gabled half dormers and under flat stone arches, with entry and mullioned canted bay window to right. SAWMILL range of one storey facing north: to centre is gabled bellcote set on wide gable with stone stacks to rear, terminal capped piers and keyed round window above 2 gauged ashlar flat- arched entries (infilled to right); to right is 5-window range with similar blocked central archway, one 4-light and 4 two-light chamfered mullioned and transomed windows and corbels to ogee cast-iron gutter. On left of central gable is 2-window range, with similar archway flanked by similar 4-light windows. Long 1850s range under same roof further to left, with finials to stone-coped gables, left gable end dominated by tall semi- circular arched entry to sliding double doors, flanked by gauged stone flat-arched entries with lunette to top right. FARMBUILDINGS: Large semi-circular arched entry to engine house; sliding doors and segmental-arched entries to throughway; gabled front of mill barn facing-south has 2-storey, 3-window range, has flat stone arches over 9-pane cast-iron windows and semi-circular stone arch over similar window above flat-arched central doorway with sliding door. Mill barn/engine house is flanked by cartshed/granary ranges, of 8 bays to NE and 6 bays to SW, the latter having barn adjoining mill barn; the N elevation has flat arch over doorway (sliding doors missing) to barn; cartsheds have cast-iron columns to transverse beams, shaped at ends, supporting granaries above with 2-light windows. South elevation has flat stone arches over entries, formerly with sliding doors, flanking mill barn; lean-to to NE infilled 7-bay cartshed with cast-iron columns adjoins SW end of sawmill at right angles. INTERIOR: iron trusses to sawmill. Stone straight-flight steps to granaries and first floor of mill barn which have composite iron and softwood trusses, and flywheel connected to drive shaft running to engine house; iron crane to first floor of mill barn over throughway. HISTORY: One of 6 "model" farmsteads erected on the Westonbirt estate by the mid 1850s, Home Farm being the most technologically advanced for its date. The cattle yards to the south have been demolished and the farm had a gas works in 1881. (J C Morton, The Farmer's Calendar,1862, p95; C. Miller. "The Model Farms of Victorian Gloucestershire". Gloucestershire History, Vol 4 (1990), ppll-13)

Listing NGR: ST8641890287

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Legacy System number:: 426917
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Sources

Books and journals
Morton, JC , The Farmers Calender, (1862), 95
Miller, C, 'Gloucestershire History' in The Model Farms of Victorian Gloucestershire, , Vol. 4, (1990), 11-13

Legal

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