Cotswold Farmhouse

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SO 90 NE DUNTISBOURNE ABBOTS -

6/40 Cotswold Farmhouse

4.6.52

GV II*

Large country house. C17 with extensive 1926 enlargement by Sidney Barnsley; some later C20 alterations. Coursed and random rubble limestone; dressed stone windows, doorways and quoins; ashlar chimneys to earlier house with moulded skirts and caps; coursed rubble with dressed quoins and slate weathering to chimneys on C20 additions; some ornamental leadwork; stone slate roof. C17 house of 2 storeys with attic; 2-span roof is C20 alteration; 2 wings at back; 2 more wings added in C20 to form L-plan, mostly 2-storey with attic; 2-storey front porch; single-storey porch added at back. Central gabled porch in front elevation with 2 windows either side to ground floor, all recessed chamfered mullioned and of 2 lights; two 2-light windows to upper floor and a single light to right of porch; 4-centred moulded archway to porch with hoodmould, and to upper floor a 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould. Cross-gabled wings added at each end to form courtyard, both of 2 storeys with attic; attic windows in gables are 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned without hoodmoulds, with a slit vent over, having a decorated head formed by a notch in stone lintel and 2 projecting pointed jamb stones; fenestration below is generally in line with gables and of 2 and 3-lights with hoodmoulds; all windows having leaded casements. Cross-gabled wing to south east has fenestration as described facing courtyard, but a blank north east facing end gable with ridge chimney stack; similar gable in opposite wing has pierced stone floral attic vent. South side of south east wing roofed in artificial stone slates; canted mullioned and transomed bay window to ground floor; much decorative leadwork, especially heraldic shield on rainwater head; wing reduced to single storey with attic as it runs back with 2-light window in half-dormer gable; 3 and 2-light windows to ground and upper floor in line with return gable on west end of wing; slit vent in gable over. Gabled end of original house facing south has central chimney stack at ridge matching similar stack at north end; off-centre fenestration below: doorway with 4-centred moulded arch and hood; 2-light chamfered mullioned window to left with similar 2-light over. Single-storey wing adjoining to west has doorway with fiat stone porch hood on moulded stone brackets; 4-light mullioned windows either side of doorway with cavetto mouldings and hood; chimney at ridge with moulded cap; west end of wing is late C20 sun room; 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned window at back of this wing faces on to back courtyard. Back elevation to original house of 4 windows with 2-light chamfered mullioned attic windows without hoods in attic gables; 3-light to floors below in line With gables; two 2-light in upper floor between 3-lights, all recessed chamfered mullioned with hoodmoulds, central porch with hipped roof; additional doorway inserted to left in late C20. Wing to north of back court: four 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and stone flat arches over face court; stone steps lead to upper level doorway at end of wing; on north side a single low-level 3-light chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould and external protective grille. Service wing to north is altered late C20, but has doorway with 4-centred arch and chamfered moulding. Interior includes 2 rooms with plasterwork by Norman Jewson: the ceiling in dining room has oak leaf patterning while that in library also depicts Cotswold animals (including a monkey!). Panelling and bookcases in library by Sidney Barnsley; in the dining room is a stained glass window of 3-lights my Morris & Co., and designed by E. Burne-Jones, depicting scenes from the life of St. Cecilia. Terraced formal gardens designed by Jewson. A late and very important example of the Arts and Crafts movement. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: SO9810709386

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire The Cotswolds, (1979)

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