Daneway House (Grade 1 Listed)
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Daneway House contains an almost unaltered Medieval Hall. Tree ring dating has established a date of c. 1315.(Katrina Thatcher). On the right, the new tower was built by Richard Hancox in 1674.
Daneway House is a Grade 1 Listed Building in The National Heritage List for England, and extract from its description, taken from the listing details, is as below.
Photographs L - R, T - B :
1 - 15. Aspects of Daneway House
16. 'The Entrance' from English Homes Vol III no. 1, Late Tudor by Tipping, H. Avray, Published 1923 (out of Copyright)
17. The entrance to Daneway House, 1917. Some of the outbuildings used by Gimson are on the right.
Description
A Brief History by Stanley Gardiner and Leonard Palin
The Manor House of the ancient Denway, or Tunley, Estate - the two names were interchangeable.
The oldest part of the house pre-dates 1339 when the inhabitants, Henry de Clyfford and Matilda his wife, were granted the right to have an oratory there.
The Hancox family occupied the house, as tenants and owners from 1397 to 1860. The five-storey addition was an extension of the early seventeenth century. William Hancox, of that time, was said to be a Captain under Cromwell, being with him when he expelled the Rump Parliament in 1633.
Another descendant was Thomas Hancox who was present at the opening of the Thames & Severn Canal by King George Ill in 1789. Part of the canal, of course, ran through his estate. He was said to be a big and powerful man and once easily lifted an offensive individual over Daneway Bridge and dropped him in the Lock. On his death his daughter inherited the property and, on her death, the estate passed out of the family.
It was sold to William Dangerfield (p. 30), who sold it to William Chapman, Silk Throwster of Chalford, who sold it to Charles Smith of Chalford, owner of the Victoria Steam Joinery Works (now Chalford Chairs) who sold it to Earl Bathurst around 1897. He commissioned Ernest Barnsley to restore the house and, in 1902, let it and the buildings to Ernest Gimson and Ernest Barnsley, who moved their furniture craft workshop from Pinbury Park.
The outbuildings became the workshops and the house was used to display their furniture. Soon after Gimson's death in 1919 the house passed into private ownership.
Detached manor house. Mid-late C14; c1620 and c1717 additions. Random rubble and coursed thin-bedded rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof.
Medieval hall runs east-west with later inserted floor; four-storey with attic tower at south east corner; 2-storey wing to south west corner, both additions forming small court. West side: central parapet gable end of hall with 3 buttresses; 4 leaded timber casements with rendered lintels. Finely carved C20 inscription on left buttress.
Interior: South entrance hall has ogee arched doorway in side wall formerly leading to oratory. Chamfered pointed arched doorway at south end of hall cross-passage. Main room in hall has cambered moulded beam; central chimney stack probably inserted late C16. Dividing 2 east bays of hall roof is arched braced collar truss; truss to west side of chimney is simpler with vertical studding infill. Pointed arched doorway to room above entrance hall with ancient plank door. Rooms in High Building have Jacobean plaster ceilings. Main chamber, called Trout Room because of plastered fish above moulded fireplace with low pointed arch, has fleurs-de- lys alternating with rosettes in frieze. Porch Room above has more elaborate plaster ceiling and panelled timber porch lobby. Similar plasterwork to ceiling and beams in upper floor room.
Built as manor house of the Clifford family, was later owned by John Hancox who added the notable High Building. House was lent by Lord Bathurst to Ernest Gimson and the Barnsley brothers after their move from Pinbury Park c1900. It formed a suitable display case for their traditionally designed furniture.
In later C20 was home of architect Oliver Hill. Extremely picturesque in composition but important as illustration of transition from medieval hall to yeoman's country house.
Source
Relation
M. Comino, Gimson and the Barnsleys, 1980;
N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40;
W.R. Lethaby et al., Ernest Gimson - His Life and Work, 1924;
D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979
Daneway House is a Grade 1 Listed Building in The National Heritage List for England, you can see its full listing details here :
http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1303397
The stables are also listed, full details here :
http://list.historicengland.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1091287
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