Woodchester House
WOODCHESTER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090664
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Woodchester House
- Statutory Address:
- WOODCHESTER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090664
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Woodchester House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOODCHESTER 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:
- WOODCHESTER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83926 02376
Details
SO 8202-8302 WOODCHESTER
16/194 Woodchester House
28.6.60 II*
Large country house. Mid C18; early C19 alterations. Limestone ashlar; coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Three-storey; central stair hall plan. Front: 5-window fenestration; 12-pane sashes with triple keyed architraves and bracketted sills to middle floor, elaborated with eared architraves and cornices to ground floor. Plain upper floor 6-pane sashes with thick glazing bars and voussoir lintels. Central pedimented doorway with keyed entablature and rusticated Tuscan pilasters; small-paned glazed doors. Modillion parapet cornice with blocking course. South side: central 15-pane ground floor sash window with stone lintel; later segmental arched 12-pane sash to left. Two parapet-mounted chimneys with plain caps. Rear: central Venetian stair window with thick glazing bars to sashes. Various later 12 and 16-pane sashes except for early C18 casements to ground floor, possibly being part of earlier house. Single-storey outbuildings attached to north side. Interior: hall is in form of wide corridor running from front to rear, with 2 fine opposed Doric doorcases serving principal rooms, each with elaborated architraves and 8-panel fielded doors. Open well staircase has 3 turned balusters per tread with open scroll-enriched strings and wreathed handrails. Matching dado panelling. Upper floor rooms have panelled closet screens. While a property of the Wise family, mid C19 owners of Woodchester Mill, was frequently visited by A.E. Housman, finding the valley landscape an inspiration for his early poetry. (R.P. Graves, A.E. Housman: The Scholar Poet, 1979; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SO8392602376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132069
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Graves, R P, AE Housman The Scholar Poet, (1979)
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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