Chesterhill House
CHESTERHILL HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090671
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterhill House
- Statutory Address:
- CHESTERHILL HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090671
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Chesterhill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHESTERHILL HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
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:
- CHESTERHILL HOUSE, CONVENT LANE
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 01236
Details
SO 8201-8301 WOODCHESTER CONVENT LANE (east side)
18/216 Chesterhill House
II
Large detached house. c1790 for Lord Ducie. Coursed rubble limestone with ashlar dressings; coursed rubble chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey with cellar; small 2-storey addition on south side. West front: 3-window fenestration, all sashes with stone lintels; tall 12-pane to ground floor, 20-pane to upper floor. Central doorway with flat hoodmould, part glazed door and rectangular light over. Projecting eaves to hipped roof. East front: symmetrical sash window fenestration with flat hoodmoulds; two outer bowed 15-pane sashes to ground floor; three sashes to upper floor, central 12-pane, outer 20-pane. Central 2-light chamfered mullioned cellar casement. Sides have asymmetrical sash fenestration below central eaves-mounted chimney with moulded cap, north side having one bowed sash with brass frame and glazing bars. Late C19 off-centre brick addition to south side with sashes. Interior: C19 staircase but earlier landing with small central oval well. Simple central skylight. Good late C18 marble fireplace brought from elsewhere. Occupied by Lord Ducie's agent, John Morton, in the 1830s. Later the residence of Catholic writers Henry William Wilberforce and Matthew Bridges. (W.J. Sheils, 'Woodchester' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 294-304.)
Listing NGR: SO8392601236
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132091
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 294-304
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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