BOYCE COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078530
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: BOYCE COURT
Statutory Address:: BOYCE COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078530
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: BOYCE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: BOYCE COURT

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOYCE COURT

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 70186 30028

Details

DYMOCK - SO 73 SW

5/57 Boyce Court

II

House; early C17, second quarter C19. Front rendered, lined as ashlar, save ground floor, main block, banded rustication: rear wing Flemish-bond brickwork: slate roof. Five-window garden front, 2-rooms deep, 3 storeys, with L plan rear wing: 2-storey single-room wing on left. Garden front: symmetrical main block with slightly projecting centre bay. Plain plinth, recessed porch up one stone step, framed by Doric pilasters, Greek key ornament on stem, flat head. Semi-circular niche each side internally, 4-panel door in half-glazed screen with small, octagonal panes. Either side 2 sash windows; moulded string above. First floor 5 sash windows with eared surrounds and slightly projecting apron below. Moulded string above: second floor five 9-pane sashes, with beaded surround. Wide, moulded eaves, hipped roof, chimney on ridge to left of centre and at right end. Lower wing on left: sash window each side of 15-pane sash, extending to floor level, up 2 stone steps; above two 4-pane sashes, cambered head, within flat-headed opening. Flat roof. Internally, ground floor, hall behind porch dentil cornice; room on left panelled shutters, moulded door surround with corner paterae, ornate plaster cornice: room beyond on left panelled shutters and ceiling beams, plaster cornice. Early C17 'H' plan house, said to contain ceiling dated 1603: one wing replaced in early C19 by 3-storey block, with large, circular staircase behind centre of original house. In 1935 circular stairs and all but one room of old house demolished. (The Rev. J.E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966)

Listing NGR: SO7018630028

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Legacy System number:: 125875
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Gethyn-Jones, J E, Dymock down the Ages, (1966)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.