Old Vicarage
OLD VICARAGE, STROUD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090833
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD VICARAGE, STROUD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1090833
- Date first listed:
- 30-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD VICARAGE, STROUD 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:
- OLD VICARAGE, STROUD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brookthorpe-with-Whaddon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83548 12231
Details
SO 81 SW BROOKTHORPE-with- STROUD ROAD WHADDON (west side), Brookthorpe
5/5 Old Vicarage
GV II
Former vicarage, now large detached house. 1846, by Thomas Henry Wyatt and David Brandon. Coursed and squared rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; stone slate roof. Double-pile, 2-storey; Gothic revival. North front: blank parapet gable end to right of porch has ashlar ridge chimney stack with chamfered sides to shaft and moulded cap; parapet gabled projecting buttressed porch with carved cross above cross-roll saddle and carved inscription picked out in paint above moulded 4-centred archway; inscription reads; 'ps 127' (psalm 127) above incised ribbon with 'nisi dns'; further lettering around archway reads: 'pax intrantibus' and 'salus exertuntibus' all in Gothic script; stained glass in pointed side wall lancets. Scattered fenestration to left of porch dominated by large 6-light mullioned and transomed staircase window with hoodmould; tall 2- light mullioned casement with hood to left, and 2 small 2-light mullioned casements to upper floor. Beyond parapet gabled end lower service wing to left has cross-window in parapet gabled half dormer and other scattered fenestration. Two-window fenestration to west end, that to right in parapet gable being 6-light mullioned and transomed with hoodmould, 2-light above, and carved shield in gable; 2-light in parapet gabled half dormer to left with 2-light below. South elevation has parapet gable to left with hipped- roofed canted 2-storey mullioned and transomed bay window; buttress to right terminates parapet; artificial stone rebuilt ridge mounted chimney stack behind. Single-window fenestration to remainder of elevation: mullioned and transomed with 2-light in parapet gabled half dormer; service wing beyond also with single 2-light to each floor. Parapet double-gabled east end with chimney stack between rising from valley. Interior has many original carved stone fireplaces, especially in principal room, which has richly carved pointed arch; also in this room very fine realistic carved stone foliage on capitals of bay window responds, also carved on face. An unaltered and early example of the High Victorian Gothic revival. (John Martin Robinson, The W atts - An Architectural Dynasty, 1979, page 261; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)
Listing NGR: SO8354812231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131662
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Robinson, J M, The Wyatt Family An Architectural Dynasty, (1979), 261
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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