Brimpsfield House
BRIMPSFIELD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088488
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brimpsfield House
- Statutory Address:
- BRIMPSFIELD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088488
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Brimpsfield House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIMPSFIELD 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:
- BRIMPSFIELD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brimpsfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 93944 12674
Details
SO 91 SW BRIMPSFIELD BRIMPSFIELD VILLAGE
2/12 Brimpsfield House
4.6.52
GV II
Large country house. C17, enlarged in early C19 and remodelled in early C20. Limestone ashlar with stone slate roof; ashlar chimney shafts with moulded caps; one paired C17 chimney. C17 part: two storeys with attic; fireplace backing onto cross-passsage (now blocked); two C19 wings added. C17 west front gable has recessed chamfered mullioned windows with hood mouldings, 3-light to ground floor and 2-light to attic; the 2-light has original iron casements; embedded in the wall are fragments of stone chevron decoration from Brimpsfield Castle. North and south facing walls of C17 house have 3-light windows to ground and upper floor, apart from 4-light north facing ground floor window. Four-window south wing with 16-pane sashes and keystone lintels; chamfered surround to east facing doorway, and a timber porch. Stone mounting block south of garden wall topped by iron railings; iron gate entry into garden. At south end is hipped roofed C19 extension of one storey. Early C19 east wing also has 16-pane sashes: one facing north in much altered elevation of scattered fenestration. Alterations to the north elevation in C20 include the elaborately moulded doorway with deep shell hood, and a canted oriel window over; also gabled 3-light mullioned window, and a small upper floor room projecting on stone corbels. At basement level: doorway with early C19 timber panelled surround and C19 window with timber lintel. C20 gabled eastern end has medieval chimney from Brimpsfield Castle used as apex finial; 3-light mullioned windows to ground and upper floor; 2-light basement window. South of east wing are attached C19 stables with separate pitched roof; complete original fittings. C17 house interior has an original beam in ground floor room with jewelled chamfer stops (design matches the panelling now in Brimpsfield Park, q.v.). In the garden: game house, (q.v.), and C19 or early C20 dog kennels, (q.v.).
Listing NGR: SO9394412674
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127113
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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