High House
HIGH HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078515
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1078515
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dymock
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 69968 31226
Details
DYMOCK THE VILLAGE SO 63 SE (north side)
4/119 High House
GV II
Former vicarage, now flats. Mid-late C18, altered late C19, late C20. English-bond brickwork, ribbed concrete tiles. 'L' plan, 5-window front, singre-bay rear wing, 3 storeys above cellars: single and 2-storey wing added to form 'U'. Front elevation: central door behind single-storey porch, up 6 stone steps with flanking brick walls: plain, rendered sides to porch, heavy cornice, flat roof: 2-pane sashes each side. Covers 6-panel door, all fielded, rectangular fanlight with St. Andrew's cross in 2 halves. To left, 2 sash windows, flat rubbed brick arches; plain brick string course above. Below, cambered heads to cellar openings. On left tripartite window, under cambered brick arch: projecting dentil course to verge to gable over. To right canted single-storey brick bay, double sash in centre, single pane lower, 2 pane upper, brick piers, stone lintels, hipped lead roof. First floor 5 sash windows, rubbed brick arches: second floor five 9- pane sashes, timber lintels, moulded brick eaves. Chimneys on each gable. Right return; front, 2 blind openings per floor, string course as front left, except first floor, 2-light mullion and transom window on left. To rear added wing, 2-pane sashes ground and first floor, casement second floor, with cambered brick arches: chimneys on left and right of wing from eaves. Internally, open-well, stair in rear wing, turned balusters, 3 per tread, cut string, moulded handrail, square newels: may have been remade in C19. Wing on left and rear wing on right late C19 additions, as bay window on front. Forms group with church (q.v.). (The Rev. J. E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)
Listing NGR: SO6996831226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Gethyn-Jones, J E, Dymock down the Ages, (1966)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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