Description

RENDCOMB -
SP 01 SW
2/245 Shawswell Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. Mid C17 with later extensions. Limestone rubble;
concrete tile roof; C20 ashlar stacks. Early range: east-west at
centre with later extensions to the north and south. Complex plan
now basically forming a rectangle. Garden (east) front with
asymmetrical gable to the early range at the centre. Two and 3-
light casements mostly with C20 lintels to the early range and the
extension to the right; stone-mullioned casements (one with double
chamfers) to the extension to the left. Two C20 two-light roof
dormers. C19 four-panel door with the upper two panels now glazed,
within a gabled ashlar-built porch with imposts and keystone which'
overlies the junction of the early range and the later extension to
the south. Gable-end stacks. Interior not inspected but reputed
to contain open fireplaces with bressumer beams; fireplace in
kitchen with curved bressumer and small range; separate opening to
bread oven with large dressed stone lintel to the right; beams
with deep flat chamfers. Interior not inspected.
(Photograph in Particulars and plans of Rendcomb Park, 1913. Glos
Colln. RV.248.1.)

Listing NGR: SP0239611453

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26382554

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Recommended Books

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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)