Westcote Manor and Adjoining Store

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WESTCOTE CHURCH WESTCOTE SP 22 SW 2/258 Westcote Manor and adjoining store GV II Large house. C17 with wing dated 1722 on a lead rainwater head on the garden front and C20 extensions. C17 range; limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins. C18 range; ashlar. C20 extension random squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate roofing to the C17 and C20 ranges. Artificial stone slate and ashlar stacks to the C18 range. 'L'-shaped plan to the C18 range with C20 entrance extension at the rear and the remains of the C17 range (partially burnt down early C18) at the left gable end (viewed from the garden front). C20 extension to the right gable end. Flat-roofed C20 extension to the rear of the C17 range, not of special interest. C17 range; 1½ storeys. Garden front; one 3-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement, gablet with a 2-light stone-mullioned casement with early leaded panes and a stopped hood upper right. Flat-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with imposts and keystone (now blocked) with a C20 two-light stone-mullioned casement inserted in the blocking. C18 range; 2 storeys and attic. Flat-chamfered plinth with rusticated quoins. Five- windowed facade lit by 12-pane sashes with narrow glazing bars and moulded architraves and moulded sills. Band beween floors, deep moulded eaves cornice. Central fielded 6-panel door with the upper two panels glazed, within a moulded architrave with a coved hood supported on moulded stone brackets. Cotswold style extension to the right mirroring the C17 range but with a 3-light stone- mullioned casement in the place of the blocked doorway. Entrance front; flat-roofed C20 two-storey with C20 single and 2-light casements and a balustraded parapet. One 2-light stone-mullioned casement cut from a single stone block with two small lancet-headed lights. Early plank door with moulded fillets, a reused 3-centred arched surround with foliate scrollwork in the spandrels and a deep moulded hood with engaged pendants either side. Stairs projection to the right (possibly originally part of the C17 range) with a very tall stone-mullioned cross window and two 2-light hollow- chamfered stone-mullioned casements. Gabled extension to the early range projects forwards to the right and is linked via a wall c2m high to outbuilding. Plank door in wall with the rails and stiles of a C17 door with the carved surround to a blind-arched panel at the top. Outbuilding; 1½ storeys with possible former granary over part with access via 4 stone steps up to a plank door in the gable end. Three plank doors in the side facing the house. Six pigeon holes with landings to the first floor in the same side. Interior of C18 range: fielded 5-panel doors, fielded dados. Several carved Baroque style fireplaces and one classical style fireplace inserted mid C20. Fine C18 dog leg staircase with barleytwist on vase balusters and fielded panelling. Ogee stops to beams in the C17 range. The balustrading on the entrance porch and attached to the house comes from Bowood House. The Tudor entrance doorway comes from Banbury. (Victoria County History, Vol VI, p 173)

Listing NGR: SP2188120751

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Sources

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Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1965), 173

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