MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS

MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1305720
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1305720
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS, HIGH STREET

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: MEDFORD HOUSE AND GARDEN WALLS, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Mickleton
National Grid Reference:: SP 16082 43522

Details

SP 1643-1743 MICKLETON HIGH STREET (east side)

12/92 Medford House 25.8.60 and garden walls

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Manor House. Built c1694 for Samuel Medford. Two C20 extensions: that on right dated and initialled R.B. 1938 and A.B. 1938 on rainwater heads. Main body: ashlar with brick rear wall (3 courses stretchers one course header/stretcher). Tall, single ashlar stacks with moulded tops from eaves left and right, triple stack off centre left. Original service wing left: ashlar with buttresses: flat coping on gables and roll cross saddle and ball finial. C20 extension attached left, ashlar towards facade but extended back in square timber framing with brick infill. Brick service wing, on limestone plinth, right of main body, with twin ashlar stack from right gable end between twin gables; flat coping and roll-cross saddles; limestone slate roofing to all. Plan comprises main body with 1930's brick service wing set back from main body wing attached right with C20 ashlar and timber framed extension attached to rear left corner of original service wing left of main body. Facade of main body: 2 storeys and attic, lit by 3 dormers 2 with hipped roofs, all with 2-light casements with leaded panes; 1:1:1 windowed, the outer bays break forward slightly and are lit by 3-light, mullioned and transomed casements with leaded panes. Moulded string below. Central, 6-panel door with rusticated ionic pilasters, keystone and voussoirs over pulvinated freize and cornice with broken pediment. Fire insurance plaque on pediment. Modillioned eaves cornice. Rainwater head dated and initialled R.D. 1797, front left. Service wing left: one storey and attic lit by 3-light dormer window against wall of main body. 2-windowed; 2-light stone mullioned casements with leaded panes, single light pantry window far right. C20 extension, left: 2 storeys with 4-centred arched doorway with flat hood right. 2- light stone mullioned casement left of door. Facade of brick extension right, 2 storeys, 2-windowed. 2-light mullioned and transomed casements flanking limestone coat of arms. Subsidary features: coursed, squared and dressed limestone walls, from corners of main body, at right angles, each with depressed arch, stone doorways towards house. Main body represents one of the key examples of the transition from Cotswold tradition to Queen Anne classical, with both vernacular and Renaissance features. (Illustrated, and described in W.G. Davie and E.G. Dawber's, Old Cottages, Farmhouses and Other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District, 1905).

Listing NGR: SP1608243522

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Sources

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Davie, W G, Dawber, E G, Old Cottages Farmhouses and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District, (1905)

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