Sackville House and the Steps

SACKVILLE HOUSE, 13, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088419
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:
Sackville House and the Steps
Statutory Address:
SACKVILLE HOUSE, 13, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1088419
Date first listed:
23-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
05-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
Sackville House and the Steps
Statutory Address 1:
SACKVILLE HOUSE, 13, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP
Statutory Address 2:
THE STEPS, 14, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SACKVILLE HOUSE, 13, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP
Statutory Address:
THE STEPS, 14, THE STREET, BIBURY, GL17 5NP

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Bibury
National Grid Reference:
SP 11628 06649

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/07/2015

SP 1006-1106
11/12

BIBURY
THE STREET (east side)
No 13 (Sackville House) and No 14 (The Steps)

(Formerly listed as Smock Farthing and The Steps A433, previously listed as Nos 13 and 14)

23.1.52

GV
II
Two attached houses. Early C17 with late C17 or early C18
enlargement; late C18 or early C19 addition to rear. Random
rubble limestone to Sackville House, ashlar to The Steps; random
rubble chimneys; stone slate roof. Sackville House: two-storey
with attic block facing road with small earlier single-storey with
attic wing. The Steps: recessed chamfered mullioned casement
fenestration to main part, upper floor casement being C20
insertion. Doorway with C20 glazed door and pitched porch hood in
angle with wing. Single-window fenestration to gable end of wing,
2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to ground floor,
single-light above, both with hoodmoulds. Two C20 gabled attic
dormers. South side: C20 casement fenestration to The Steps;
mullioned casements in linking section to left. North side:
rebuilt ridge-mounted chimney to main gable of Sackville House;
off-centre upper floor 2-light casement below. Interiors not
inspected.
(Illustrated in W.G. Davie and E.G. Dawber, Cottages....in the
Cotswold District, 1905)


Listing NGR: SP1162706651

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
127258
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Davie, W G, Dawber, E G, Old Cottages Farmhouses and other Stone Buildings in the Cotswold District, (1905)

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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