HER 3607 DESCRIPTION:- Listed Building Description: PAINSWICK BISLEY STREET (east side) SO 8609/8709 (part of) 8/35 Little Fleece GV II 21/10/55 House in row. C16 or C17; restored 1942 by Sir George Oatley. Cut squared limestone, stone slate roof. Set gable-end to the street, with entrance to left in fabric of adjoining property (Old Fleece, qv); C19 back wing. Two storeys, attic and cellar, 3 windows. At ground floor and first floor three 2-light set-back chamfer mullion casements, and in gable a 3-light similar, all set to individual stopped drips; low right, set in the plinth, a 2-light wood casement with bars to basement. Also, far right a small single light stair window opposite the gable stack. Left, beyond the principal roof-line, a C20 flush panelled door, in a bolection mould surround and under a stopped drip: this gives to a cross passage which has a 4-centred opening at the far end. The central ground floor window seemed to replace a one-time door. Coped gable to street and right, with large stack. The back wall includes a 2-light casement with a central double mullion, also, left a wide chamfered square opening. Interior has stone vaulted cellar (not inspected); right end of ground floor has very wide inglenook firs with extremely flat 4-centre arch hollow chamfer lintel set to solid stone cheeks, above is a smaller hollow chamfered square opening fire, and a further stone cheeked fireplace to wood bressummer. There are various chamfer-stopped beams. Roof structure appears to be Oakley's work, and the staircase is of C20. The ground floor used as a shop by the National Trust. Listing NGR: SO 86779 09797. {Source Work 2402.} Little Fleece, a 17th century, three storey building contains original parts of the Fleece Inn dating from 1350. The building is owned by The National Trust and is a bookshop. {Source Work 862.} 1953 - Photo in Country Life magazine. {Source Work 11840.} 2019 - This monument was previously recorded within the Historic England National Record of the Historic Environment. That record, formerly held within the AMIE database, is quoted below: "Little Fleece, a 17th century, three storey building contains original parts of the Fleece Inn dating from 1350. The building owned by the National Trust, is a bookshop. Grade II*. (2,3) The building is still owned by the National Trust and run as holiday accomodation. (4)" {Source Work 4249.} |