Rooksmoor House

It has been a rather mad day, driving around to take H. to her market stall in Nailsworth and pick her up at lunchtime. Between times I have been trying to arrange more exhibits for the window display I'm installing on Monday.

One of the contributors is Pip, a renowned film editor who has worked extensively for the BBC for decades particularly for the BBC Natural History Unit. He very kindly loaned us some of his actual editing equipment as well as lots of old film cans full of actual film which he edited as well as magnetic tape for the audio signals.

After several changes of plan Pip suggested we meet him in the pub at Rooksmoor where he and his wife were meeting some of their children and grandchildren. We moved the gear from his car to mine  in the car park of the pub on the main A46 road. He pointed to the big house behind the pub, now split into two homes, sited just above the old steep track rising up the hill.

It is a Grade 11* Listed building fro the 16th and 17th centuries, and reckoned to be have been the home of the original owner of Rooksmoor Mill. Pip's daughter recently bought part of the wing nearest to the camera, and she and her family are about to move from a terraced house in Bristol to this wonderful building. I do love being and living inside such Cotswold stone and when I first visited this area in the 1970s, I stayed for four months in a similar styled Cotswold farmhouse.

I took the picture from the new pub car park which has been built insode the walls of old industrial buildings. The original mill was sited about thirty yards behind where I stood. I nearly blipped the walls as they show countless ages of styles and types of building materials. I have added a picture of the main wall holding up the embankment of th=another stone house behind it. Look in the 'Extra photos' below.