Bourton House
BOURTON HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089559
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bourton House
- Statutory Address:
- BOURTON HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089559
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Bourton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOURTON HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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:
- BOURTON HOUSE, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bourton-on-the-Hill
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 17736 32463
Details
BOURTON-ON-THE-HILL MAIN STREET SP 1732 (south side) 10/53 Bourton House GV II* Manor House. Early C18, rebuilt on foundations of late C16 house, from which the cellars remain. C19 extension and conservatory. Rectangular plan with corners extended out from both wall faces to form engaged square 'towers'. Small C19 bathroom extension right of right-hand 'tower'. C19 conservatory attached to left of rear left 'tower'. Ashlar with slate roof, limestone gable end coping and ashlar stacks. Facade: 2 storeys and attic lit by four 2- light dormers with C20 casements. Cellar forms projecting plinth on which the later facade was built. Symmetrical facade: 1:5:1- windowed;.18-pane sashes. Wide glazing bars to ground floor sashes except those lighting towers. All sashes with moulded architraves and bull-nosed sills. String between ground and 1st floor windows becomes band to either side of central doorway. Parapet with moulded coping and string. Triangular pediment within parapet supported by Ionic pilasters set-on from projecting towers. Central 12-light part-glazed door up 7 steps. Moulded segmental pediment supported by fluted Ionic pilasters over. Cellar lit by 2-light stone-mullioned casements with leaded lights. Ovolo- moulded mullions to blocked cellar window of left 'tower'. Roof comprises 3-parallel ridges with large square gable end stacks with moulded caps at the end of each ridge. Saddleback gable coping. Interior: C18 open well staircase with thin turned, wooden balusters. Some panelling reused from C16 house, some C18 panelling also. Wood from doors of C16 house reused in doors to upper floor. Limited interior inspection. Subsidiary features: 7 semi-circular steps flanked by C18 wrought iron railings with scroll decoration and urn finials. (Country Life, 1943).
Listing NGR: SP1773632463
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128691
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1943)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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