Manor Farmhouse Quedgeley, England

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SO 81 SW QUEDGELEY BRISTOL ROAD (east side) 5/156 Nos 257 & 259 (Manor Farmhouse)

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Formerly large detached manor house; now 2 houses. Probably late C15; C16 north wing; south wing c1811. Timber framed; brick; all roughcast; brick chimneys; clay plain tile roof. H-plan; 2-storey with cellar and attic; single-storey additions to north. West side: 2 gables to left, recessed linking range to centre, gable to right; large gable to left has outshut to left; 4 scattered casements to gable with small upper floor casement to left in outshut; timber louvred attic vent in gable; lias plinth; smaller gabled projection to right with upper floor casement and attic vent, possibly former entrance porch. Range in centre said to be close studded; single casement fenestration; masonry projection to right with clay tile coping; ridge-mounted brick chimney. C19 gable end of south wing to right with roof brought down to 2-storey outshut to left; 6-panel door with pedimented porch to outshut; sash above with stepped voussoir lintel; projecting brick chimney to right. South elevation: rendered in imitation ashlar with moulded cornice to parapet and blocking course; 3-window 12-pane sash fenestration. East side: gable ends to north and south wings to right and left; C19 gable to left rendered with ridge-mounted brick chimney; cellar doorway with cambered stone arch. Central range has single casement fenestration; 6-panel fielded door to left with fanlight over in moulded timber architraves. Brick gable end to north wing is rebuilding after fire: single ground floor casement with 2 to upper floor, all with cambered brick arches. C18 timber framed 2- storey service addition to right with brick infill; opening through to service courtyard. North wing said to contain moulded beams to ground floor ceiling; carved timber posts in upper floor room with later coved ceiling; and blocked cambered arched external upper floor doorway. C16 close studded south gable end of central range visible in attic. Early C19 marble fireplace in south wing. Large part of moat survives to west. Before the Dissolution the manor house was a possession of Llanthony Priory, the Prior being recorded as having held court here in 1524, possibly in the north wing. (K.Morgan, 'Quedgeley' in V.C.H. Glos. x, 1972, pp.215-224; D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO8153513651