Well Farmhouse
WELL FARMHOUSE, WICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267087
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Well Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- WELL FARMHOUSE, WICK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1267087
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Well Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL FARMHOUSE, WICK STREET
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:
- WELL FARMHOUSE, WICK STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86510 07928
Details
PAINSWICK WICK STREET SO 80 NE (east side)
5/354 Well Farmhouse 21.10.55 II* Farmhouse. Mid C17. Limestone ashlar, concrete tile roof, ashlar stacks. An L-plan with entry to a screens passage in the internal corner of the L and the principal rooms to its left facing into Painswick Valley. Front to road is lofty two storeys and attics with twin Cotswold gables set well up from eaves, to saddle-back coping, and to scrolled kneelers; main end gables also coped. Each front gable has 3-light casement to ground and first floor and 2-light to attics, all recessed chamfer stone mullion, under stopped hoods. Facade set to plinth with moulded top. Right return has two small stair lights in plain gable which carries two diagonal shafts on skirted square base; then, right, the set- back wing in two storeys and attic, 2 windows. At ground floor a 3-light, at first floor a 2 and 3-light, all as main front; two 2-light gabled dormers. Ground floor, left, has C20 door set deep in reveals with moulded surround, stopped at half-height, and with cornice on consoles. Surround has low relief carved decoration. Left return from front is 1 + 1 window with extra C19 2-light over door to stopped hood far left; main gable right is fenestrated as front gable, then, to its left, 2-light recessed chamfer casement with hood at ground and first floor. There is a further l½ storey C19 wing to the left, with a central gable. Interior: panel and muntin screen to passage, spiral stair, some wide early floor boards. Fireplace with cornice ground floor, right in back wing. Four bay roof, A-frame, and where wing joins front block, timber framed partition in roof space. Front block, right, has large moulded and stopped deep plain lintel to fireplace, slight camber. Stone spiral to first floor, chamfered stopped beams. Remains of fireplace and bread oven. (Country Life, Sept 4, 1920).
Listing NGR: SO8651007928
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 4 September, (1920)
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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