Description

TQ 64 NW CAPEL SHERENDON LANE, TUDELEY

1/281 Sherendon Farmhouse
20.10.54
II

Farmhouse. Probably C17, possibly earlier with various later modernisations
(the largest one circa 1700). The earlier part is timber-framed although the
end wall was rebuilt in the C19 with Flemish bond red brick and the front is
clad with cement render incised like ashlar masonry. The circa 1700 extension
front is of coursed blocks of local stone ashlar with large quoins on the
south end corner and south end wall of English bond red brick including a
large number of burnt headers. Brick stack and chimneyshafts and peg-tile
roof.

Plan: Farmhouse faces east south east, say east. The C17 section is at the
right (north) end, 3-room lobby entrance plan house. The small north end room
has an end stack, inserted there in the late C19. The main axial stack
between the other 2 rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces and the lobby
entrance is in front. Circa 1700 2-room plan parlour extension to left
(south). Any stack here is now disused.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshots across
the rear of the right end.

Exterior: Irregular 4-window front of various windows. At the left end a
late C19 canted bay window containing timber mullion-and-transom windows.
Alongside is C19 16-pane sash, and next to that a tripartite sash with a
central 16-pane sash. Above that is a C17 oriel window on curving oak
brackets (5 lights with ovolo-moulded mullions). First floor right end
another C17 window, 3 lights with chamfered oak mullions. Rest are C19 and
C20 casements. Pent roof across the front of the older section at first floor
level. Main roof is half-hipped both ends and contains 3 front gabled
dormers. To rear roof is carried down over the outshots.

Interior: Not available for inspection at the time of this survey.

Listing NGR: TQ6278546279

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545227

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)