Description

1.
5321 FORNCETT Tabernacle Lane
(east side)
TM 19 SW 7/1197 Ashdell House

II

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House. Late C17, altered in late C19. Timber-framed, clad in late C19 red
brick with rusticated quoins to stucco front; gabled pantile roof; brick
ridge stack. 3-unit lobby-entry plan. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Gabled
porch with carved bargeboards and pilasters to bracketed flat hood over
Tudor-arched doorway: flanked by lean-to bay windows with revealed decorative
tile panels; first floor 4-pane sashes. Flat brick arches over windows to
sides and rear.
Interior: exposed timber frame with jowled and unjowled storey posts; ground
floor room to right (former parlour) has ovolo-moulded beams with elaborate
niched stops and ovolo-moulded bressummer with similar niched stop over
blocked open fireplace; central room (former hall) has stop-chamfered beams,
soffit mortices for removed mullioned window to rear and chamfered bressummer
with elaborate niched stops over blocked open fireplace; service area to left
has original lateral partition and stop-chamfered beam and morticing to soffit
of beam marking position of original transerve partition; original
transverse partition to first floor.

Listing NGR: TM1420993657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26544542

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper