Description

SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE ABBEY TERRACE
(north side)
4/10
Winchcombe Abbey
(formerly listed as
4.7.60 St Mary's Abbey)

- II

Probably built as Malthouse to St Mary's Abbey, now a large dwelling. C15
or earlier, substantial C19 and C20 modifications. Cut and squared lime-
stone or rubble limestone, concrete replacement stone slate roof, coped
at south gable, large central brick stack. What remains is a single long
block lying approximately north-south, to which was added early C19 a small
parallel range at the south-west end, and in the C20 various elements at
the north end, forming a courtyard, a deep porch with 'Palladian' entry
off-centre, left, and a lean-to porch with stone slate roof, right. Two
storeys with attic, complex fenestration: main front to west has, left of
main porch, 3 glazing bar sashes over small deep-set single light and C20
2-light mullioned casement; to right of porch, one 3-light sash with bars
and single sash with bars and Gothick interlaced bars, over 16-pane sash;
in parallel range glazing bar sash over 3-light casement. The south,
gabled front, at ground floor a larger sash with Gothick interlaced bars,
over this a smaller sash the same, but under deep stepped drip, and in the
gable a single pointed casement with leading under stepped drip. East front,
a diagonal buttress at south end and offset buttress off-centre, right.
Windows include oriel with gable over various C16/C17 fragments and various
casements with Gothick bars, and, ground floor, far right, 3-light C16 mul-
lioned window with cusped heads and 2-light similar without cusps. Main
door is C20 glazed on west side, also C20 doors extreme north end on both
elevations. Interior: very much modified in late C20. At ground floor
is a series of very large transverse roughly chamfered beams and some expo-
sed early joists. Some principals of roof exposed including at south end
deep (450 mm) cambered tie with collar above, one wind-brace; at north end
an A frame. Ground floor room at south end retains C19 cornice. Cusped
C19 windows on east side have hollow-mould chamfers within. Apart from
its intrinsic architectural merits, this property is important historically
as a very rare survival from this major abbey, the only other element being
Abbey House (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP0232228331

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26383853

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Recommended Books

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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)