STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE

STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE, B4216

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078576
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
List Entry Name:: STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE, B4216

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1078576
Date first listed:: 02-Oct-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE, B4216

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: STABLES, NORTH EAST OF TAYNTON HOUSE AND WALL AND WALL AND GATES CONNECTING TO HOUSE, B4216

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Taynton
National Grid Reference:: SO 72257 22178

Details

SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (west side)

7/242 Stables, north-east of Taynton House and wall and gates connecting to house 2.10.54 (formerly listed as part of 'Group of three barns to the north of Taynton House')

GV II*

Former oxhouse, now stables; yard wall. Late C17 or early C18. Irregular English bond brickwork, stone slates. Seven-bay range, 2 storeys. Clasping corner pilaster buttresses, bullnose plinth, plain string course at first-floor level: openings generally with elliptical brick arches over. Facade to yard: on left blocked opening, 2 slit air vents, boarded door, upper half glazed, set slightly to left of original opening; 3 slit air vents, blocked doorway. In centre double boarded doors to coach house, timber lintel, brick arch over, flanked pilaster buttresses. To right blocked door, 2-light mullion and transom window with slit air vent each side; later boarded door, 2-light mullion and transom window and blocked door. First floor 6 slit air-vents on left, 3-light casement window with segmental head in centre, pilaster buttresses each side, gable over with stone ball finial to apex. To right 3 slit air vents and two 2-light mullion and transom windows. Right return 3 blocked windows ground floor, 3 blind first floor, with plain string course at eaves level, 2 blocked windows above, and a blind one in apex. Ball missing to finial at this end. Rear wall subdivided into 5 sections by pilaster buttresses. Yard wall on right, plain stone coping: sweeps down to gate pier, square with stone hinge blocks and weathered stone coping. Double wooden gates, 4 rails, brace only to second, double splats to bottom, single to top, shaped tops, form swept outline. Wall in 4 sections stepping up thence to corner where returned to house, each with square brick pier, to which top of wall sweeps up on one side. Interior: plastered coach house in centre, later fireplace rear, wooden stairs to separate plastered room over. Partitions in left may be early alterations: part of loft floor missing. Trusses collar and tie-beam with angle struts, 2 pairs purlins and no ridge. Very early building of some size for cattle, probably used for ploughing, an unusual survival; forms part of important group with contemporary barn and cider house, and farmhouse (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)

Listing NGR: SO7225722178

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 125778
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

Legal

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