Rooksmoor House
ROOKSMOOR HOUSE, ROOKSMOOR HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090718
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Rooksmoor House
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKSMOOR HOUSE, ROOKSMOOR HILL
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- Date:
- 2002-07-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06694/26
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090718
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Rooksmoor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKSMOOR HOUSE, ROOKSMOOR HILL
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:
- ROOKSMOOR HOUSE, ROOKSMOOR HILL
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 84222 03167
Details
SO 8403-8503 RODBOROUGH ROOKS MOOR HILL (west side)
15/127 Rooksmoor House
28.6.60
GV II*
Formerly large house with attached former weaving house; now 2 houses. Mid C16 with early C17 addition; late C17 wing; early C18 addition. Random and coursed rubble limestone; rebuilt rendered brick chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic; various additions form T-plan. East side (on Rooksmoor Hill): 4 gables, oldest pair to right of 2 builds; mid C16 at right end has parapet gable with cross roll saddle, 2+2-light recessed chamfered ground floor casement with hoodmould and doorway to left with rendered lintel and 4-panel door; 2- and 3-light casements above under combined hoodmould; off-centre attic 2- light. Early C17 gable to left has 3-light recessed cavetto mullioned casement to ground and upper floors; 2-light to attic with single-light in gable apex. Two gables to left are early C18 addition with rendered chimney to each; 2-light stair casements set between gables. Ridge-mounted chimney at junction between 2 parts of building has double pulvinated frieze below moulded cap. North end: parapet gabled with rebuilt chimney. West side: parapet gable to left of earliest part of house with 3-light recessed cavetto mullioned ground floor casement, off-centre 2- light above and single attic light, all with hoodmoulds. Small round arched recess above attic casement. Upper floor additon in angle with west wing supported on brick pier has round arched sash window to each face. Late C17 wing has cross window fenestration, continuous dripmould above those to ground floor, combining hoodmould to upper floor windows; central gable to north and south, south with 3-light casement. Doorway with bolection moulded architraves at junction between wing and main range with dripmould rising over 2 fixed lights above doorway; original plank door. Two gables of continuation of main range to south, left having cross windows as to wing, right with 3-window 2-light chamfered mullioned casements; two 2-light under combined hood to attic with 2-light above. Central C20 porch addition. Interior: fine panelled room in west wing has bolection moulded stone fireplace, bolection moulded door architraves with broken pediment over having small urn. Earlier features in north part of house. C19 linenfold panelling in room in south part of house, also having Gothick pierced truss beams with decorated spandrels. Presumably the mill house of Rooksmoor Mill. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)
Listing NGR: SO8422203167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132002
- 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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