Lower Dean Manor
LOWER DEAN MANOR, LOWER TURKDEAN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089818
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dean Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER DEAN MANOR, LOWER TURKDEAN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1089818
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Dean Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER DEAN MANOR, LOWER TURKDEAN
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:
- LOWER DEAN MANOR, LOWER TURKDEAN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Turkdean
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 10372 17304
Details
TURKDEAN LOWER TURKDEAN SP 11 NW 6/81 Lower Dean Manor (formerly listed as Lower Dean 23.1.52 Farmhouse) GV II* Former manor held by Llanthony Priory. Earliest part c1500, with C16-early C17 and C20 additions. Ashlar, stone slate roof with moulded cappings. Complex plan; early core comprises crenellated range with 'L'-shaped C16-early C17 range right, C20 extension at rear of the latter. Former C17 outbuilding (now converted) connected to main body via wall, left of early core. Garden front of early core; 2 storeys, 2 bays. Four-light ovolo-moulded stone- mullioned window with transom, to ground floor. Double ovolo- moulding to transom and surround of window. Two 2-light ovolo- moulded stone-mullioned casements with ovolo-moulded surrounds to first floor. Gable of C16-early C17 range projects forwards right; 2 storeys and attic. Four-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement with stopped hood to first floor, single light with flat- chamfered Tudor-arched surround and stopped hood lighting gable. Far right-hand bay stepped back slightly. Three-light ovolo- moulded stone-mullioned casement with stopped hood to first floor. Single double-chamfered light with stopped hood to first floor and to cellar below. Right-hand return lit by one, 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned casements some with 4-centred arched heads. C20 double plank door within C20 'Tudor'-arched surround off-centre left. Interior; fine Renaissance fireplace within early core with Tudor- arched surround and carved spandrels, flanked by coupled columns on pedestals with raised diamond decoration, overmantel with stepped mouldings. C16-early C17 range with intersecting deep-chamfered beams and Tudor-arched fireplace. Cellar beneath C16-C17 range with Tudor-arched entrance, C20 flat ceiling (probably originally vaulted). Cellar walls buttressed internally. (David Verey, The Buildings of England, The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SP1037217304
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130078
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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