1. N. Cooper, The Houses of the Gentry, 1480–1680 (London and New Haven, 1999), 244;
2. G. Worsley, Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age (New Haven and London, 1995). Cooper calls rectangular, hipped-rool houses lor the gentry ‘ubiquitous’ by the end of the seventeenth century.
3. C. Woodward, ‘Castle Godwyn’, Country Life (27 September 2007), 130–135, at 131. The house became known as Castle Godwyn in the later eighteenth century; D. Verey and A. Brooks, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds (London, 2002), 555.
4. J. Milne and T. Mowl, Castle Godwyn: A Guide and an Architectural History (Painswick, 1996), 6–7 suggests mason John Bryan. Dan Cruikshank posits architect John Strahan in Woodward, ‘Castle Godwyn’, Country Life (27 September 2007), 132.
5. Detailed analysis of Stenton’s construction is in R. Engle, ‘Historic Structure Report: Stenton’ [hereafter HSR] (Unpublished MS lor The NSCDA/PA, 1982).