Description

ST 68 NE WICKWAR BAGSTONE (west side)

3/146 Bagstone Court Farmhouse and Bakehouse 2 yards to south east G.V. II*

Farmhouse, thought to have been a grange of Kingswood Abbey. C14, altered C17 and later; extended early C19. Rendered; double Roman tiled roof, with lowest 2 courses of stone slates to the older block. 2 storeys. L-plan. The early C19 extension is at the south: two 16-pane glazing bar sash windows, that on the first floor to the right has a semi-circular head; 6 panel door to the right under a fanlight and semi-circular hood. The mediaeval block runs east-west at the north end of the early C19 extension: 3 bays with the easternmost bay being a C17/C18 dairy extension at a slightly lower height and with a single storey lean-to on the north side; mixture of C20 2-light casement windows and a C18 multi-pane sash window on the north elevation; C20 doors to the east. Interior. The mediaeval block consisted of a cellar with a solar over at the west end and a 2 bay open hall at the east end, which was floored over with the insertion of a stack in the C16/C17. The cellar is at a lower level, has a flagged floor, a stop-chamfered beam and lodged joists. The hall has a stop- chamfered beam and lodged joists. Roof. The central truss-of the 2 bay hall is an arch-braced collar beam with open spandrels and tenonend purlins; the 2 bays have one tier of curved windbraces and some of the principal members are stop chamfered; the principal rafters are tenoned into a saddle piece which is cut away on the underside to form a cusped and ogee decorative feature; all the wood is smoke blackened. The truss to the west has short principals tenoned into a slight cambered collar and a pair of upper crucks above; the windbracing is missing and the timbers are clean. The roof is covered with woven matting (post C16/C17) which formerly supported thatch. Bakehouse, 2 yards to south east, is C18. Rubble; double Roman tiled roof. 2 storeys. 2 bays: 2-light casement windows with square wooden-mullions. Plank door at east end. Interior: stone floor; oven and a copper; the upper floor is missing. (L. Hall, Unpublished Report, see The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire, 1983).

Listing NGR: ST6901386891

External Links

• Wikidata Q17556462

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