Description

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ST 69 SW OLDBURY-UPON-SEVERN

4/173 COWHILL

Manor Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Possibly medieval origins, remodelled C16 or C17 and again C18; C19 and
C20 alterations. Rubblestone, interlocking tile roof. 2 storeys with attic; 4 bays
with wing to rear right. Gabled C19 porch to bay 2, of coursed stone with stone slate
roof, has chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with double 4-panel door, upper panels of
coloured glass. Wood lintels to C20 wooden casement windows of 3, 2, 3 and 2 lights
on each floor; a blocked window above porch, and the window to its right formerly the
doorway. Hipped dormer to left. Brick stacks to left end and to ridge between bays
2 and 3, both rebuilt. Farm buildings attached to right not of special interest.
Rear: main range has a concrete -lintelled window to each floor on right, and a wood-
lintelled window to centre and 1st floor left; central hipped-roofed dormer. Late
C19 outshut, not of special interest, against wing. Left return: plinth; wood-
lintelled attic window. Right return: rendered; mid-C20 windows; external brick stack
rising from 1st floor of wing gable; addition to end of wing not of special interest.

Interior: large-scantling chamfered beams with a variety of stops. Large central fire-
place and beside it an early C17 or earlier, pointed-arched doorway having broad
chamfer with pyramidal stops at base.

Attic: wide floorboards. Main range has C18 roof of 5 collared principal rafter roof
trusses with small apex pieces supporting diagonally-set square-section ridge-piece;
2 sets of butt purlins. Wing has C18 roof of 2 principal rafter roof trusses with
cambered collars and large-scantling butt purlins.

Listing NGR: ST6038391541

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26430484

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)