Somerford Keynes House
SOMERFORD KEYNES HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090078
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Somerford Keynes House
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERFORD KEYNES HOUSE, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090078
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Somerford Keynes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERFORD KEYNES 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:
- SOMERFORD KEYNES 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:
- Somerford Keynes
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01756 95451
Details
SOMERFORD KEYNES MAIN STREET SU 09 NW (off west side) 8/189 Somerford Keynes House II Former vicarage (until 1916), now large detached private house. Begun 1804, for Rev. Nathaniel George Woodrooffe, enlarged 1853 to east and west, enlarged again to east in 1920. Original section ashlar faced, with coursed and dressed stone to each side, flush quoins to west, hipped slate roof with deep projecting eaves, ashlar stacks with moulded cornice. Long single range, 2 storeys. South front has 10 windows, 12-pane sashes, some with louvred shutters. Half-glazed door to far right with decorative rectangular fanlight. West end has 2 full length windows. North front steps back twice from east to west with nine 12-pane sashes across whole. Central oldest section in coursed and dressed stone on this side with stone Doric porch with 2 columns on bases and 2 pilasters, entablature and blocking course, 4-panel door with recessed moulded panels in 2 leaves. Long 24-pane stair window to left of porch. Interior largely intact including baluster stair in central section. (Geoffrey Gibbon, Through the Saxon Door - the story of Somerford Keynes, 1969).
Listing NGR: SU0175695451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 129488
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gibbon, G, Through the Saxon Door The Story of Somerford Keynes, (1969)
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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