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Name:Court Farmhouse The Pound Lower Almondsbury
SGHER Number:1512
Type of record:Monument
Grid Reference:ST 6024 8412
Map Sheet:ST68SW
Parish:Almondsbury, S Gloucestershire

Monument Types

  • FARMHOUSE (Post Medieval - 1600 AD to 1699 AD)

Associated Events

  • Buildings at Risk Site Visit by - GB

Protected Status

  • Listed Building (II) 044-0/012/046: Title not entered
  • Conservation Area Lower Almondsbury (09): Title not entered

Full description

Farmhouse, now house. C16 with later alterations. Rubble with stone dressings and quoins, brick, pantiled roof with brick gable to south and central stack. 4-room plan with rear, probably dairy, wing with C17 and C19 rear additions. 2 storeys and 5 windows, including 2-bay stable wing to left, lst floor has two 6-light stone hollow-chamfered mullion and transom casements with leaded lights, and blocked window with timber lintel to right, ground floor has C20 casements with timber lintel to left, C17 porch in 2nd bay from right has stone bull's eye window and door with strap hinges, C19 single storey brick outbuilding to right containing well, stable wing to left has blocked cart entry under timber lintel with inserted door, 2 lst floor C19 casements and 2 attic mullioned windows. Rear has random C19 and C20 windows. Interior: doors in chamfered stone surrounds, stopped beams, single-light splayed window openings in hall to right of former through passage. (Sources: Hall, Linda : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983). {1}{2} The Court Farmhouse, Almondsbury, is a 17th Century building with pantile roof. {3}It may originally have been moated. (SGSMR 12980) A detailed survey can be found in {4}

Sources and further reading

<1>Unpublished document: DoE. 1984. Listed Building List.
<2>Bibliographic reference: Hall L. 1983. Rural Houses of N Avon & S Gloucestershire 1400-1720. Bristol City MuseumMonograph 6 117-23
<3>Bibliographic reference: Lay S Potten D. 1978. Parish Survey Almondsbury.
<4>Bibliographic reference: Rodwell K A. 1991. Court Farm Lower Almondsbury. TBGAS 109 179-94

Related records

12980Related to: Moated Site Court Farm Lower Almondsbury (Monument)
1491Related to: Tithe Barn Court Farm The Pound Almondsbury (Monument)