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145: 223:(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. 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. 31: 152: 207:
at the time, the house has undergone considerable alteration since its 11th-century beginnings with only the moat remaining. 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
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and is buried in the nearby church). At this point the house had two courtyards, and most of the oak timber used for the re-roofing was felled in the winter of 1421/1422 from the nearby
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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
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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 oldest parts of the building date from between 1086 and 1420 include the
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The 17th-century parts of the house on the east elevation include a
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Icomb
Gloucestershire
England
51°54′0.35″N 1°41′41.5″W / 51.9000972°N 1.694861°W / 51.9000972; -1.694861
Listed Building
Icomb Place is located in Gloucestershire
medieval
manor house
Icomb
Stow on the Wold
Gloucestershire
listed building
Roger de Lacy
great hall
solar
undercroft
great chamber
Henry V of England
Battle of Agincourt
Cirencester
George Simpson-Hayward
rock garden
greenhouses


Historic England
"Icomb Place (Grade I) (1153494)"
National Heritage List for England
E 31/2/1/6532 167v Great Domesday Book Icomb Place, Gloucestershire

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