Minsterworth Court and Iron Gates

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MINSTERWORTH CHURCH LANE SO 71 NE (south side) 5/99 Minsterworth Court and iron gates (previously listed as The Court.) 10-1-55 GV II Manor house. Early C17, 1783 by R. Goodman of Lydney; C19, minor alterations C20. Rough render to road, part on timber framing; smooth render to garden; tiled roof, asbestos-slate main block. Three-room main wing, 2 storeys; 2-room wing set forward on right, 2 1/2 storeys; one room 2 storey extension further to right, 'L' shaped single storey wing behind, partly parallel to front, all one room deep. Facade to road: left main block, plinth, double doors centre, up 2 stone steps with nosings, 3 fielded panels per door; moulded architrave, framed half pilasters with leaf capitals; alternate plain and paterae squares in frieze, moulded cornice. Sash window each side. Plain string course at first floor sill level, 3 sashes, plain parapet. Hipped roof with 2 ridge chimneys. To right, wing set forward, half gable exposed left return. Single-storey quadrant link to main block, small window to front: 8-pane sash above, 2-light casement in gable, leaded lights; decorative barge boards. Front, two 3-light reserved chamfer casements, leaded lights (on all other windows this section); first floor two 2-light casements, single-light between. Above wall carried up as 2 gables, 2-light casement in each, decorative barge boards with pendant finial; external brick chimney right end, lower brick wing to right. Rear facade, to garden: plain render main block; plinth, slightly-projecting centre bay with recess in its centre. Pair half-glazed doors up 3 semi-circular stone steps with nosings, rectangular light over. Sash window bay each side. Plain string course at sill level first floor, 3 sash windows, segmental head to centre recess. Plain parapet ends, pediment centre with blind oval. Roof as front. To left low brick rear wall to service wing, slightly set back from rendered front: sash window, plain parapet. About 6m in front of 2-storey section, on road side, single iron carriage gates each end, on wheel on quadrant rail; dog bars, double centre rail with circles, segmental brace upper half, fleur-de-lys tops to all bars. Iron posts, floriate caps, long brace. Between gates 3 smaller-section posts, linked wires, chain at top. Interior: main wing passage along whole road face, diagonally-set stone paving, dado rail, moulded plaster cornice, 6-panel doors. Centre room Adam-style fireplace, cast-iron grate; moulded plaster cornice. Projecting wing on right, right section ceiling quartered by heavily-chamfered beams, first floor originally one room, ceiling divided into 6 by beams; corner fireplace, crane, 1664 cast-iron fireback. Almost semi-circular plastered ceiling to second floor; 2 boarded doors with original hinges and latch. Gabled, right wing originally timber framed, jettied at first floor level to road. Jetty underbuilt, reusing original windows and facade rendered, probably C18. It formed end of larger house, extending back from road, possibly of earlier date: remainder demolished and new back wall built to yard. An earlier house on site said to have been residence of Gwillam, Rouge Percival to Queen Elizabeth I. (Glouces. R.O. D1501; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7751917030

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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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