Achards
ACHARDS, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090705
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Achards
- Statutory Address:
- ACHARDS, BATH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090705
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Achards
- Statutory Address 1:
- ACHARDS, BATH ROAD
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:
- ACHARDS, BATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rodborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84114 03488
Details
SO 8403-8503 RODBOROUGH BATH ROAD (east side)
15/94 Achards (previously listed as The Archards) 28.6.60
GV II
Large detached house. Early C18 on older site; extensive C19 and C20 restorations. Random rubble limestone with roughcast render; rendered brick-rebuilt chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic and cellar; C20 rear additon and linking section to barn to north (q.v.). Front: 7-window fenestration grouped 2:3:2, all stone cross windows with hoodmoulds except 2 ground floor sashes to right with plain keyed architraves. Two cellar 2-light chamfered mullioned casements below sashes in stone plinth. C20 hipped roofed porch left of centre; gabled C19 roof dormers at each end of hipped and sprocketed roof with modillion eaves cornice. Irregularly coursed exposed quoins. Two ridge-mounted chimneys. South end: lean-to conservatory with 2 cross windows to upper above. Rear: cross windows to left part of elevation as to front. C20 altered rear wing is not of special interest. Lower- roofed addition at north end has various C20 alterations. Blocked cross window above. Interior: open well staircase with splat balusters appears altered or repositioned in C19. Various classical fireplaces said to have come from Bristol. A 1797 view illustrates Achards with a large gabled part at south end, possibly a C16 or C17 house to which the early C18 building was attached. (N.M. Herbert, 'Rodborough' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 218-234)
Listing NGR: SO8411403488
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131969
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 218-234
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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