COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078699
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY HOUSE

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Date:: 2000-07-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1078699
Date first listed:: 18-Oct-1985
List Entry Name:: COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY HOUSE

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:: COURTYARD WALL AND RAILINGS, HARTPURY 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:: Hartpury
National Grid Reference:: SO7873223009

Details

SO 72 SE HARTPURY -

8/37 Courtyard wall and railings Hartpury House

GV II

Courtyard wall and railings; 1896, By Sir Guy Dawber for William Gordon-Canning. English-bond brick work, ashlar dressings, wrought iron. Enclose rectangular courtyard in front of Hartpury House (q.v.) on 3 sides. Gates to park opposite porch to house: short fixed railings each side of double gates, decorative central feature above main level. Square, panelled stone piers each side with cornice and ball finial. Low brick wall, stone coping with swept top carries railings either side, 5 bays to left, 6 to right: railings supported by lyre-shaped stone uprights with cornice, set across wall. Straight top and bottom rails to railings, decorative feature in centre of each bay, framed vertical bars. Tall, square brick pillars at front corners, stone bands, cornice and ball finials, last with vermiculated band around centre. On right 2 panels return to main entrance gate, piers as corners, but with nib for gates, returned with stone console to pier at top. Gates missing. High, plain brick wall links to house. On left low brick wall forms end of courtyard, returning to house: 2 openings, with low, square piers, plinth and flat stone coping with moulded edge (date on House; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and Forest of Dean, 1970; notes at House).

Listing NGR: SO7873223009

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Legacy System number:: 125569
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.