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Listed Building Description

SP 1039-1139 WILLERSEY CAMPDEN LANE south side)

14/154 Willersey House 25.8.60 and Ornamental Garden Walls LBII

Manor House and garden walls. C17 and early C20. C20 part by A.N. Prentice. Coursed, squared and dressed limestone. Limestone slate roof with flat gable coping, with roll-cross saddles also. C17 block has an ashlar gable end stack on right and another off centre left. C20 wing running forwards left has twin ashlar gable end stack and triple ashlar stack. All stacks have moulded upper and lower courses. Gable end of C20 wing has stepped buttresses. C17 main body, C20 wing projecting forwards at right angles on left. Another C20 wing running back to the rear left of the main body. Late C20 flat-roofed, dining room extension to rear on angle between the two C20 wings. Range of outbuildings attached via wall, front left, forward of C20 left wing. C17 main body: 2-storeys and attic, lit by 4 Cotswold dormers with single lights. Irregular fenestration: 3 and 4-light stone mullioned casements to ground and first floors, all with stopped hoods. Single, C20 casements also. Unpainted, studded, plank door off centre left with decorative strap hinges, in flat-chamfered, depressed arched surround with stopped hood over. C19 style bell pull. C20 wing left: 1, 2 and 3-light flat- chamfered, stone mullioned windows all with stopped hoods. Those in the gable end with 4-centred arched heads. Door, imitating front door, in gable end of left wing, and another with moulded surround in right wall of wing up against the main body. Subsidiary features: garden walls forming geometric and curving patterns, to front and rear. Limestone rubble with slightly pointed capping stones. Up to lm in height. Some openings flanked with ball finials. History: Originally a farmhouse in the village, moved up hill and rebuilt in 1912 by A.N. Prentice in a greatly enlarged form. (David Verey. The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979). Interior not inspected. {Source Work 2382.}