Wresden Farmhouse, Mill and Attached Barn
WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN, DURSLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1340583
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wresden Farmhouse, Mill and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN, DURSLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1340583
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Apr-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Wresden Farmhouse, Mill and Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN, DURSLEY ROAD
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:
- WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN, DURSLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Uley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 77216 98027
Details
ST 79 NE ULEY DURSLEY ROAD 4/135 (north side) 23.6.52
Wresden Farmhouse, Mill and attached barn (formerly listed as Wresden Farmhouse (sometimes known as Eyles House) including attached cloth store and barn)
II*
Mill house, mill, and barn, now farmhouse and barn. 1668 and 1687 with C19 wing and C19 barn. Limestone rubble, stone slate roof, concrete tile to former mill unit. Original house plain gabled building with cross passage, approached on north side by two-storey porch; to this a large return wing added on the west, and attached to the east gable the two-storey mill; beyond this, at right angles, at the east end, the barn.
North, or entrance front in 2 storeys with, left, in the mill, two circular under two small elliptical 'pitching eyes', and to house proper 2-light stone mullioned casements, with stopped drip, left of gabled porch, pargetted in upper level with date stone 'IEE 1687'; under this old plank door in heavy moulded frame, and, built in to porch entry, some C17 turned balusters. On south front, two storeys, three windowed to first floor, four windowed below, 2 or 3-light casements; in mill, right, 4 modern windows. In south gable, 3-storeys, tablet records '1668 IE Rebuilt 1845'.
Interior: large fireplace in room to right of porch, fire back dated 1684; stair by stack at upper level, bowed collar roof, built-in Jacobean bed. This was the mill of John Eyles, d 1731 at the age of 91, and the first maker of Spanish Cloth in Uley. The mill said to be 'one of the oldest in Gloucestershire' [Tann].
Barn in 3 bays, half-hipped north end, gabled cant entrance, pair old plank doors on peg hinges, slits to south gable. See Jennifer Tann, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, 1967.
Listing NGR: ST7721698027
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Tann, J, Gloucestershire Woollen Mills, (1967)
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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