SO81NE GLOUCESTER BARNWOOD AVENUE, Barnwood (East side) 844-1/4/439 Nos.29 and 29A Barnwood Court 10/01/55 GV II Manor house, later vicarage, now house divided into two dwellings. c1600. Substantial alterations and additions c1800 for Robert Morris. Altered internally by division into two dwellings c1982. Stone rubble with dressed stone details, the later additions of brick and most of the exterior stuccoed or rough-cast; gabled and hipped slate roofs; C17 stone stack. Parallel adjoining ranges with end-gabled wing projecting on the north side at the east end: the entrance front of c1800 facing south masks a late C16 cross wing at the west end of the south range. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics. Symmetrical entrance front, c1800, of five bays with gable-end to right and hipped end to left; an offset dressed stone, chamfered plinth; stuccoed wall face above scribed with false ashlar joints; stone quoins at both ends; central entrance doorway approached by a splayed flight of five stone steps to threshold, the bottom step flanked by stone urns on pedestals, semicircular arched doorway framed by stone doorcase of three-quarter columns with feather capitals, dosserets, and an open pediment enclosing fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Two sashes to each side of doorway and five sashes on first floor, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. The west side of c1600 of rubble under rough-cast render; two large end gables to the roofs of the parallel ranges, the left-hand gable, reformed c1800, has projecting eaves, the right-hand gable coped in stone with a carved stone finial on the apex; a projecting chimney-stack of rubble with quoined angles against the left-hand gable-end with weathered offsets at upper level and moulded string course at the base of the ashlar flue shaft; to left of stack on the ground floor a plain sash in opening of c1800; above, in the gable, a blocked two-light stone mullioned window; to right of stack on ground and first floors irregular fenestration of sashes and casements in the gable above a three-light stone mullioned window with casements. On the north side to left a large cross gable of c1600 and to right the projecting wing with coped end gable; to left two cross mullion and transom windows on each floor with leadlight casements and in the gable a two-light stone mullioned window with leadlight casements. The east side has a projecting single storey bow to the end of the south range with French doors to terrace and single storey conservatory to left; on the first floor late C19 plain horned sashes. INTERIOR: in wall on right-hand side of central entrance hall and in same wall above on first floor (originally the east wall of the c1600 cross wing) the remains of blocked windows with hoodmoulds; room to left has details of C1800 with richly moulded plaster cornice, fireplace lined with Delft tiles framed by chimney-piece with moulded and eared frame; room to left with panelled window jambs and shutters; C19 staircase; in the attic rooms reused panelling of c1600. SO8418 BARNWOOD ROAD 844-1/14/2 (South side) No.16 Old Rectory 212/03/73 II Farmhouse, later rectory, now house. C16 or possibly earlier; altered in early C17 for William Capel; substantial early to mid C19 alterations in a picturesque Tudor style; after 1890 extended and altered for William Johnstone-Vaughan. Timber frame and brick stuccoed externally and mostly plastered internally, gabled roofs with Broseley pattern clay tiles in diaper pattern and decorative ridge tiles, late C19 brick stacks. Double-depth block in two parallel, gabled ranges with two late C19 wings to rear, garage attached on east side. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; all the gables with scalloped and pierced C19 timber bargeboards. Symmetrical front of three bays with a cross gable above the central bay, on the ground floor in the centre a late C19 timber-framed entrance porch with gable to front and open arcaded sides; in each end bay a C19 timber oriel window with timber casements; on the first floor, three timber three-light casements with arched lights, horizontal glazing bars and eared hoodmoulds, in the central gable a single light casement with similar details; on the west side the ground floor masked by the garage, on the first floor casements similar to the front and in the end gables of the front range similar two-light casements. C19 wing at rear is timber-framed. INTERIOR: central entrance hall with C18 tiled floor of marble and slate, probably brought in from another building in C19; restored late C16 or early C17 staircase incorporating carved panelling, also brought in, which includes a door off the landing made up in C19 with C16 linen-fold panelling and a wood panel carved with the arms of the City of Gloucester 1535- 1681; on the underside of the staircase a reset wood panel carved with the coat of arms of the Wood family dated 1590; on each side of the hall a large room with original chamfered beams and an ornate C19 cast-iron chimney piece; in the rear range on the left a kitchen with chamfered beams and joists, and an early C16 fireplace partially infilled; on the first floor further evidence of timber-framing and in the attic exposed roof trusses. The house reputed to contain features from the former Tolsey at Gloucester Cross, demolished 1893, and woodwork probably restored with additional carving by GA Howitt who carried out similar work in the Tudor Room at No.8 Westgate Street (qv) in 1891. HISTORY: the farmhouse was originally called Colliers. From 1759 to 1856 the building was rectory for St Aldate's Parish, Gloucester. William Capel was Mayor of Gloucester. William Johnstone-Vaughan was also Mayor of Gloucester and an antique dealer and collector. SO8518 GLOUCESTER BARNWOOD ROAD 844-1/14/3 (South side) No.30 The Old House 09/02/98 II Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17 substantially remodelled and extended in C18: minor C19 and C20 alterations. Timber frame, mostly encapsulated in later extensions; stuccoed brick, hipped and gabled plain tile roofs, brick stacks. The original house probably a lateral range with a cross-wing to front right; in C18 a lateral range added onto the front of the cross-wing and a wing added at the rear. EXTERIOR: two storeys; on the left side of the front range and the cross wing the slope of the roof is continued as a catslide to first-floor level, on the catslide a dormer with a raking roof; on the front a central, single-storey, gabled entrance porch added in early C20, to right a bay window with lean-to roof and casements, to left a three-light timber casement, on the first floor three two-light leaded casements; on the left side in the angle with the lateral range a C20 single-storey, timber-framed, conservatory porch; the left hand gable wall of the lateral range with timber frame underbuilt in brick on the ground floor. On the first floor timber- framing of close studs between bottom plate and intermediate rails in two zones; narrow zone above (under the tie beam), is possibly a later heightening and re-roofing of the range using a different pattern of close studs in the upper zone and in the gable; in the middle zone an ogee tension brace to each corner post; in the gable a collar tie; on the ground floor a central two-light casement and a single-light casement to right; on the first floor a three-light casement, all with C20 leadlight glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected, but likely to be of interest. SO81NE GLOUCESTER BARNWOOD ROAD, Barnwood 844-1/4/443 (North side) Nos.181 AND 183 GV II Farmhouse, now semi-detached cottages. Mid/late C16, subdivided as two cottages with alterations and additions at rear in early C19. Roughcast on timber frame and brick, end gabled, steeply pitched tile roof, central brick ridge stack and gable-end stack to left. Single depth range originally a hall and chamber, outshut at rear. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; on the front No.181 has doorway to right and a double casement with upper transom to left; on the first floor two single casements with upper transoms; No.183 has doorway to right, a double casement to right and on the first floor a similar casement, all the casements with glazing bars. INTERIOR: in No.183 the ground-floor front room has C16, deep and richly moulded intersecting beams; the interior of No.181 not inspected but believed to be relined with no visible features of interest. SO81NE GLOUCESTER BARNWOOD ROAD, Barnwood 844-1/4/444 (South side) Manor Day Centre (Formerly Listed as: BARNWOOD ROAD, Barnwood (South side) The Manor House) 10/01/55 II Manor house, now day centre for the elderly. c1740 with substantial early and mid C19 additions and C19 and C20 alterations. Brick with stone and moulded brick details, a stone slate, end gable roof with gabled dormers to C18 range, otherwise Welsh slate roofs, brick stacks. Double-depth block with C18 front range and parallel mid C19 range at rear and a service wing on right hand side. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; the C18 symmetrical front of five bays with a slight projection to the wider central bay; offset stone plinth; projecting stone band at first-floor level and a crowning eaves cornice in moulded brick with close set modillions; at the outer corners projecting, chamfered, stone quoins, on the corners of the central projection bright red brick quoins.