Manor Farmhouse and Dovecote
MANOR FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1089482
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Dovecote
- Statutory Address:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1089482
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Manor Farmhouse and Dovecote
- Statutory Address 1:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE
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:
- MANOR FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Temple Guiting
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 09112 28054
Details
TEMPLE GUITING TEMPLE GUTTING VILLAGE SP 02 NE 6/162 Manor Farmhouse and dovecote 25.8.60 I Manor house. Early C16 with C20 extension rear left. Coursed squared and dressed limestone, limestone slate roof, limestone gable coping and ashlar stacks. 'E'shaped plan including 2 cell dovecote attached right. Central projecting gable, gable end of dovecote projects forwards in similar way far right. Asymmetrical gable end set back in relation to others far left. 2 storeys and garret. Irregular fenestration; 2, 3 and 4-light double-chamfered stone mullioned casements with stopped hoods and stilted heads with carved spandrels. Similar 4-light window with transom to first floor of left gable. 3-light double-chamfered stone- mullioned casement with hood to half dormer between central gable and dovecote. All windows with leaded panes, some with original glass. 6-panelled door in wood surround under pointed arched hood with stops, left gable end. Plank door with early hinges within flat- chamfered Tudor arched surround with stopped hood in gable end of dovecote. 2 square wood lanterns with pyramidal roofs to dovecote. Twin diagonal axial stacks far right with moulded caps. Similar, but square twin central axial stacks. Large square stack from eaves left. Flat gable-end coping with roll-cross saddles. Rear of house; two Cotswold dormers with gable end of dovecote left, stepped buttresses, small rectangular fire window, Interior: flagged floor to former dairy left, formerly with cross passage. Pointed arches at top and bottom of stone spiral stair right of front door. Probable former central open hall, now with room inserted in roof space, with raised cruck type roof construction. Two panels of stained glass one with the initials /I B/ with a bishops crozier between, (q.v. monument in Church of St. Mary, John Beale, died 1774 former occupant of house). House reputed to have been a summer residence of the Bishops of Oxford but prior to that was probably associated with the Knights Templar (q.v. Church of St. Mary) who founded a preceptory in Temple Guiting in mid C12.
Listing NGR: SP0911228054
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128809
- 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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