WILTON PLACE

WILTON PLACE, LEDBURY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078542
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: WILTON PLACE
Statutory Address:: WILTON PLACE, LEDBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078542
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: WILTON PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: WILTON PLACE, LEDBURY ROAD

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:: WILTON PLACE, LEDBURY ROAD

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:: SO7027332277

Details

DYMOCK LEDBURY ROAD SO 73 SW (east side)

5/81 Wilton Place

II

Former large house, now subdivided into flats. Mid to late C18: early C20. Reddish-brown Flemish bond brickwork: tiled roof. Large U plan with rear wing on left forming three-quarter H: all 3 storeys: later projecting single-storey wing in centre of U, and to rear, forming last part of H. Garden front: left wing tripartite 2 pane sash, flat rubbed brick arch. Projecting centre wing, brick plinth, all windows tall, 2-unequal pane sashes under flat rubbed brick arch. Window left return: centre projects again, window in returns, central window front wider (upper sash 2 pane), flanked narrow windows; moulded brick eaves cornice: hipped roof: pedimented gable in centre, rendered. To right, ground floor, late C20 three-light metal window in part of earlier opening, flat rubbed brick arch over, cambered head to cellar window below. First floor 3-light casement in each wing, 2 in centre recess, each with flat rubbed brick arch; trefoil head with glazed spandrels to each light. Second floor 4 similarly spaced. 3- light plain casement windows, cambered-brick heads. Dentil eaves, shaped dentils, hipped roof, with central valley or lead flat. Chimney on ridge of left wing, right of centre, and small chimney in right rear corner centre recess. External stack right return. Opposite, entrance elevation, projecting 3 storey wing on right 3 windows wide, centre blind, outer 2-light as first floor front, but with cambered brick arch. Left return 2 small mid C20 metal windows. Six flush panel door on right, main block, semi-circular fanlight with curved V tracery, rubbed brick arch. On left window as in wing and blind window: single-storey wing beyond. First floor wing 2 blind openings right, 2-light left as below: main block 5 similar windows. Second floor originally 2-light plain casement under cambered brick arch centre, similar blind openings each side: left enlarged late C20 to take 3-light metal window. Five 2-light plain casements in main block: dentil eaves and hipped roof as garden front. Curved conservatory on garden front on right, removed mid to late C20. (The Rev. J.E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966)

Listing NGR: SO7027332277

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Legacy System number:: 125899
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.