Description

SP 01 NW and WITHINGTON - SP 01 SW

5/145 and 7/146 Stableblock attached to Cassey Compton House 23.1.52 (formerly listed with Manor House) GV II

Stableblock and accommodation forming west side of courtyard to rear of house. Late C17-early C18. Stables; roughly coursed limestone at rear and gable end, ashlar on south. Accommodation block; random and coursed limestone, stone stacks. Accommodation block; 2 storeys, double-chamfered 2-light stone-mullioned casements facing courtyard, garage with two C20 double garage doors and loft over at gable end. Some casements with rectangular leaded panes. Stableblock runs away left; single storey with loft, access to loft via plank door at top of stone steps at rear. Possible reused fireplace (now blocked) left of steps. C20 garage doors right. Wing runs forwards right of doors with double width opening with timber lintel in gable end. Two courses of pigeon holes below eaves in right-hand return. Wooden brackets below pigeon holes presumably formerly supported landing. South front; ground floor formerly lit by 5 hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned cross windows with moulded architraves and sills (windows now blocked below transoms). Band above windows. Five doorways with moulded surrounds (one now blocked). Doorway at east end blocked with C20 two-light wood casement inserted, dropped keystone within moulded surround. Blocked double width opening with timber lintel left, upper part of former cross window with moulded architrave inserted in blocking. Five gabled roof dormers. Roof hipped at west end. Axial and gable end stacks with moulded cappings. Interior; retains hay racks. (Atkyn's History of Gloucestershire, engraving c1712 by Kip.)

Listing NGR: SP0498215015

External Links

• Wikidata Q26449695

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Recommended Books

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)