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[[Image:IcombPlace-East.png|thumbnail|200px|Icomb Place view from the east]] |
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| name = Icomb Place |
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| location = [[Icomb]], [[Gloucestershire]], [[England]] |
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| designation1 = Grade I |
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| designation1_offname = Icomb Place |
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| designation1_date = 25 August 1960 |
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| designation1_number = 1153494<ref name="NHLE">{{National Heritage List for England| num=1153494 |desc=Icomb Place |grade=I |access-date=19 November 2015}}</ref>}} |
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==Description== |
==Description== |
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The house is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref name="NHLE" |
The house is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref name="NHLE" /> |
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Mentioned in the Doomsday Book and owned by [[Roger de Lacy]] at the time<ref>{{citation |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7305816 |title=E 31/2/1/6532 167v Great Domesday Book Icomb Place, Gloucestershire |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref> |
Mentioned in the Doomsday Book and owned by [[Roger de Lacy]] at the time,<ref>{{citation |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7305816 |title=E 31/2/1/6532 167v Great Domesday Book Icomb Place, Gloucestershire |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=2020-07-08 |archive-date=2020-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708055142/https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7305816 |url-status=live }}</ref> the house has undergone considerable alteration since its 11th-century beginnings with only the moat remaining.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Cooke|first1=Robert|title=West Country Houses|date=1957|publisher=Batsford|pages=31–33}}</ref> The house seems to have started out as a modest courtyard dwelling, but later (some time before 1423) was made grander by the creation of the [[great hall]] and remodelling of the [[solar (room)|solar]] (with barrel vaulted timber roof). The building has many unusual features: for example, no room has a right angle on its plan view, all rooms being a trapezium in form. |
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The oldest parts of the building date from between 1086 and 1420 include the [[undercroft]] (northwest wing), the battlemented gateway and the southeast wing, originally the kitchens and servants' quarters. The great hall is disproportionally large and its upper end obtrudes into the line of the solar range.<ref name=Emery/> It is a substantial room of {{convert|44|by|20|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} and is divided into five bays by braced collar-beam trusses in the walls at the side. Other similar trusses extend along the entire north range which contain two original bedrooms. These bedrooms have fireplaces connected to mid-level chimney stacks.<ref name=Emery>{{cite book| |
The oldest parts of the building date from between 1086 and 1420 include the [[undercroft]] (northwest wing), the battlemented gateway and the southeast wing, originally the kitchens and servants' quarters. The great hall is disproportionally large and its upper end obtrudes into the line of the solar range.<ref name=Emery/> It is a substantial room of {{convert|44|by|20|ft|m|0|abbr=on}} and is divided into five bays by braced collar-beam trusses in the walls at the side. Other similar trusses extend along the entire north range which contain two original bedrooms. These bedrooms have fireplaces connected to mid-level chimney stacks.<ref name=Emery>{{cite book|first=Anthony |last=Emery|title=Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g7EXvaDEYioC&pg=PA108 |year=2006 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44919-9 |pages=108–110}}</ref> |
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The 17th |
The 17th-century parts of the house on the east elevation include a [[great chamber]] on the first floor which contains a pair of one of the world's earliest surviving flying (or floating) mullion windows. |
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The alterations carried out in ''c''.1420 were undertaken by the then owner |
The alterations carried out in ''c''.1420 were undertaken by the then owner, Sir John Blacket, "the hero of Agincourt" (who fought alongside [[Henry V of England]] at the [[Battle of Agincourt]] and is buried in the nearby church). At this point the house had two courtyards,<ref name=Emery/> and most of the oak timber used for the re-roofing was felled in the winter of 1421/1422 from the nearby [[Cirencester]] area. |
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After a period of dereliction during the 18th and 19th centuries the house was bought by Samuel Simpson Hayward, the father of [[George Simpson-Hayward]] who made alterations to the building. The renovation at the start of the 20th century demolished the |
After a period of dereliction during the 18th and 19th centuries the house was bought by Samuel Simpson Hayward, the father of [[George Simpson-Hayward]], who made alterations to the building. The renovation at the start of the 20th century demolished the south wing and southern courtyard and constructed a [[rock garden]] and extensive [[greenhouse]]s, some of which remain today.<ref>{{cite book|first=Tony |last=Russell|title=The Cotswolds' Finest Gardens|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1IINlAEACAAJ|year=2013|publisher=Amberley Publishing|isbn=978-1-4456-1472-4|access-date=2016-10-03|archive-date=2017-06-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630074313/https://books.google.com/books?id=1IINlAEACAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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{{Commons category|Icomb Place}} |
{{Commons category|Icomb Place}} |
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*Christopher Simon Sykes |
*{{cite book |first=Christopher Simon |last=Sykes |title=Ancient English Houses 1240–1612 |location=London |publisher=Chatto & Windus |date=1988 |isbn=0701131764}} |
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[[Category:Buildings and structures completed in 1420]] |
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[[Category:Houses completed in the 15th century]] |
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[[Category:Grade I listed |
[[Category:Grade I listed houses in Gloucestershire]] |
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[[Category:Grade I listed houses]] |
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[[Category:Country houses in Gloucestershire]] |
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Latest revision as of 08:29, 20 August 2022
| Icomb Place | |
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| Location | Icomb, Gloucestershire, England |
| Coordinates | 51°54′0.35″N 1°41′41.5″W / 51.9000972°N 1.694861°W |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Official name | Icomb Place |
| Designated | 25 August 1960 |
| Reference no. | 1153494[1] |
  Location in Gloucestershire | |
Icomb Place (pronounced "Ickum") is a medieval manor house on the edge of the village of Icomb, near Stow on the Wold in Gloucestershire. The word "place" in this context is thought to be a precursor of "palace".
Description
[edit]The house is a Grade I listed building.[1] Mentioned in the Doomsday Book and owned by Roger de Lacy at the time,[2] the house has undergone considerable alteration since its 11th-century beginnings with only the moat remaining.[3] The house seems to have started out as a modest courtyard dwelling, but later (some time before 1423) was made grander by the creation of the great hall and remodelling of the solar (with barrel vaulted timber roof). The building has many unusual features: for example, no room has a right angle on its plan view, all rooms being a trapezium in form.
The oldest parts of the building date from between 1086 and 1420 include the undercroft (northwest wing), the battlemented gateway and the southeast wing, originally the kitchens and servants' quarters. The great hall is disproportionally large and its upper end obtrudes into the line of the solar range.[4] It is a substantial room of 44 by 20 ft (13 by 6 m) and is divided into five bays by braced collar-beam trusses in the walls at the side. Other similar trusses extend along the entire north range which contain two original bedrooms. These bedrooms have fireplaces connected to mid-level chimney stacks.[4]
The 17th-century parts of the house on the east elevation include a great chamber on the first floor which contains a pair of one of the world's earliest surviving flying (or floating) mullion windows.
The alterations carried out in c.1420 were undertaken by the then owner, Sir John Blacket, "the hero of Agincourt" (who fought alongside Henry V of England at the Battle of Agincourt and is buried in the nearby church). At this point the house had two courtyards,[4] and most of the oak timber used for the re-roofing was felled in the winter of 1421/1422 from the nearby Cirencester area.
After a period of dereliction during the 18th and 19th centuries the house was bought by Samuel Simpson Hayward, the father of George Simpson-Hayward, who made alterations to the building. The renovation at the start of the 20th century demolished the south wing and southern courtyard and constructed a rock garden and extensive greenhouses, some of which remain today.[5]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Icomb Place.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Icomb Place (Grade I) (1153494)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
- ^ E 31/2/1/6532 167v Great Domesday Book Icomb Place, Gloucestershire, The National Archives, archived from the original on 8 July 2020, retrieved 8 July 2020
- ^ Cooke, Robert (1957). West Country Houses. Batsford. pp. 31–33.
- ^ a b c Emery, Anthony (2006). Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: Volume 3, Southern England. Cambridge University Press. pp. 108–110. ISBN 978-1-139-44919-9.
- ^ Russell, Tony (2013). The Cotswolds' Finest Gardens. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4456-1472-4. Archived from the original on 30 June 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
- Sykes, Christopher Simon (1988). Ancient English Houses 1240–1612. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0701131764.