CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Stroud District Council

CONSERVATION AREA STATEMENT - Conservation Area No7: FRAMPTON ON SEVERN
The key building in this sub-area is, of course, the church, yet from the lane leading into Church End, the dominant
building is the huge 17th century barn, with its immense hipped roof, now part of the Tanhouse Farm complex. It is
thought to have been built after a violent storm in 1688, possibly reusing earlier materials from an earlier barn on the
site.
Its brick walls, which sit on a stone plinth, are timber framed in typical regular square panels, however, unusually, the
split pales used to infill the panels have not been covered with daub and plastered over. Its western end, a former
cowshed, is of brick, featuring a simple banded decoration. The physical bulk of the barn, tight on the road edge,
closes of views to the north.
Oegrove Farm (at the junction between Church End and the Street) terminates the eastern view from Church End. It
is a two-storey house, built in the early 17th century. It, too, is timber-framed in square panels, but is set apart from
the norm by a Cotswold stone slate roof and its massive southern gable-end, built of rubble masonry.
Church End House is conspicuous from the entrance to St Mary’s, although initially hidden by the blank gable end of
a wing. This is one of Frampton’s quietly genteel houses, designed in the polite national style. It was built in the late
18th century by the Barnard family, who owned a local brick making business. They used their own bricks in its
construction, so, whilst the house with its simple classical influences, bears no relation to the vernacular architecture
of the village, the materials from which it is constructed are entirely local and root it firmly in its surroundings.
To its south- west is the brick- built former Malthouse. The building is probably largely contemporary with Church End
House but possibly contains even earlier fabric. As the name suggests, it was used for the malting of barley for the
local breweries.
The historic buildings clustered around the church form a close knit group and are very much a focal point in themselves.
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