WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN

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
List Entry Name:: WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN
Statutory Address:: WRESDEN FARMHOUSE, MILL AND ATTACHED BARN, DURSLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 131588
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.