Hardwicke Court
HARDWICKE COURT, BRISTOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090815
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwicke Court
- Statutory Address:
- HARDWICKE COURT, BRISTOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1090815
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Hardwicke Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARDWICKE COURT, BRISTOL 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:
- HARDWICKE COURT, BRISTOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hardwicke
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 78786 11712
Details
SO 71 SE HARDWICKE BRISTOL ROAD (west side) 4/69 Hardwicke Court
10.1.55
GV II* Large country house. 1817-19; by Sir Robert Smirke for T.J. Lloyd- Baker. Limestone ashlar; brick service wings; Welsh slate roof. Central staircase plan; central 3-storey block; 2-storey side wings. Front: windows 2:1:2 with central square single-storey porch having plain paired pilasters and narrow side sashes; plain unmoulded window openings; tall 15-pane (3 x 5) ground floor sashes; 12-pane to middle storey 6-pane to top floor; plain band at first floor level; moulded cornices above, that to top floor with plain blocking course above; low pitched roof, parapet-gabled at ends; moulded caps to ashlar chimney stacks. Flanking 2-storey side wings project forwards with single-window fenestration; large tripartite sash in segmental headed opening to ground floor with smaller square-headed tripartite sash above; hipped parapet roof. South end: paired 15-pane sashes to side wing in central break forward; 2 blocked openings above. North end: 3 blocked openings to each floor. Back: service block projects from front range; ground floor in ashlar limestone with segmental arched scattered fenestration; upper floors are addition in brick with cambered arched sashes; further single-storey service wing projects to south-west. Plain Neo-classical interior: hall lit from porch through arched inner glazed screen with open well staircase on axis with central hall; Neo-classical marble fireplaces to each principal room. Stands in landscaped park with terracing to east of house enclosing fountain pool (q.v.). Straight canal to south on axis of former house. Built as replacement for Trye family manor house of C16 and C17. (Article in County Life, 5th July 1978; C.R. Elrington, 'Hardwicke' in V.C.H. Glos.x, 1972 pp. 178- 188; and D.Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)
Listing NGR: SO7878611712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 178-188
Country Life in 5 July, (1978)
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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