Ham Court and Wall Adjoining to Rear

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CHARLTON KINGS

SO9721SW HAM ROAD 630-1/31/70 (East side) 04/10/77 Ham Court and wall adjoining to rear (Formerly Listed as: HAM ROAD Ham Court) (Formerly Listed as: HAM ROAD Staff quarters at Ham Court)

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House and wall adjoining. Late C16/early C17; probably early C17 range to far right (formerly known as staff quarters) with late C17 or early C18 kitchen wing between; remodelling of 1724 included raising by one storey and rebuilding of south front in brick; C19 alterations. MATERIALS: timber-framed; pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond to front facade, Cotswold stone plinth with timber-frame and plaster infill to left return and to part of rear, Cotswold stone range to right and timber-framed former staff quarters; main range has stone slate roof, range to right has renewed tiles, timber-framed staff quarters with stone slate roof. PLAN: 2 storeys and attic, 4 first-floor windows with single-storey and attic, single cell to right and further one-and-a-half storey, single cell range forming an 'L' to south. EXTERIOR: off-centre right entrance a 6-panel part-glazed door in moulded surround and C20 porch. Ground floor has two 6/6 sashes with hoods, C20 3-light and single-light casements with glazing bars. First floor: three 6/6 sashes, tripartite 6/6 between 1/1 sash. Attic: three 3/3 and one 4/4 sash. All windows have moulded wood frames, sills and flat arches of gauged brick. End stacks. West gable end wall has moulded bressumer at first floor with close-studding between small, square panels of framing with concave lozenges within; small square panels of framing to gable which shows evidence of roof heightening. Range to right has 2 casement windows to ground floor and full dormer window to attic; end stack. Former staff quarters has small square panels of timber-framing, rendered between panels; ridge chimney to left, lean-to tiled porch to right; 3 C20 casement windows, small light to gable. INTERIOR: reported to have a good deal of beamwork exposed particularly in the first-floor north-west room where the decorative timber-frame panels are made into a feature.

Parlour beams have unstopped chamfers. Plain axial hall beam, cross-beam by the stack has diagonal-cut stops. Hall fireplace has chamfered stone jambs, chamfered bressumer, fireplace retains its iron crane. Kitchen beam has chamfer and diagonal-cut stops. Regency open-string staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail; the doors in passages have Regency reeded doorcases with well-carved roses in the corner squares. First floor: further Regency doorcases, most with roses in the corners except in hall chamber are lion-heads, this room has Regency marble fireplace with circles in the corners. In parlour chamber 2 posts of timber-frame visible. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: early C19 brick wall with stone coping to walled garden abuts to rear approx 2m high and U-shaped on plan. HISTORICAL NOTE AND DEVELOPMENT: the west end wall was originally jettied, with a shallow overhang, the jetty was later underbuilt in stone and brick. The brick infilling in the west wall indicates that the parlour fireplace is a later insertion. Kitchen wing is probably a later addition. The manor of Ham, an offshoot of the manor of Cheltenham, was granted to Robert Goodrich after 1564; by 1574 Robert and Edith Goodrich were in possession and in 1574 Thomas Packer agreed to pay »400 for the property, described in 1576 as the 'Farme of Hame', presumed to be Ham Court. During the Civil War Ham Court is reputed to have provided fodder for Royalist troops. Prince Rupert is reputed to have spent a night there. Small enclosed yard at rear. There are similar square panels of timber-framing with concave lozenge panels at The King's House, No.37 School Road (qv). (Paget M (ed), Charlton Kings Local History Society: A History of Charlton Kings: Gloucester: 1988-: 91-93; Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1980-: 5-10; Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin: 1988-: 5-16).



Listing NGR: SO9746621137

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Sources

Books and journals
Paget, M, A History of Charlton Kings, (1988)
Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin in Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin, (1980), 5-10
Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin in Charlton Kings Local History Society Bulletin, (1988), 5-16

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