The Priests House
THE PRIESTS HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088447
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- The Priests House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088447
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Priests House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE PRIESTS HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elkstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 96749 12265
Details
SO 91 SE ELKSTONE ELKSTONE VILLAGE
3/122 The Priests House (previously listed as Pound Cottages) 4.6.52
II
Former priest's house, now detached house. Late C15 or early C16; C20 addition. Random rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; 1 stone and 1 blue brick chimney; stone slate roof, artificial stone slate to C20 addition. 2-storey with attic; 2-room; single-storey with attic addition. Front: scattered fenestration with doorway off centre having timber lintel and partly glazed plank door; two 2-light chamfered mullioned windows with hoodmoulds and a timber casement with timber lintel immediately right of door; to upper floor 2-light with Tudor-arched heads; timber casement with timber lintel to left; 2 roof dormers. Blocked Tudor-arched doorway to upper floor at west end, formerly entered up steps; blocked chamfered opening to attic above; ridge mounted chimney added in C19. Back built into bank has projection with catslide roof and small window with chamfered surround to side; upper floor has 2- light chamfered mullioned window without hood and small casement with stone lintel to right; at low level C20 casement with timber lintel. East gable end has rebuilt stone chimney at ridge and C20 addition with artificial stone lintels to C20 casements. Interior not inspected, but said to have arched braced roof to former upper floor hall and an internal Tudor-arched doorway with carved spandrels. Stands in south east corner of churchyard. (N. M. Herbert, 'Elkstone' in V.C.H. Glos. vii, 1981, pp. 210-218; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SO9674612265
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127222
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1981), 210-218
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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