Box House
BOX HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091125
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Box House
- Statutory Address:
- BOX HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091125
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Box House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOX HOUSE
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:
- BOX HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minchinhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86268 99892
Details
ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON BOX
7/204 Box House
II
Detached house. Mid-late c17, enlarged mid-late C18. Remodelled with new west front range c1800 for Peter Playne. Altered 1904 by V.A. Lawson for A.J. Playne. Coursed, squared and random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey; 2 parallel ranges incorporating central staircase hall. West front: 3-window fenestration, 15-pane sashes to ground floor, 12-pane to upper floor, all with marginal glazing bars. Central doorway with upper floor tripartite sash above. Partially glazed lean-to verandah to ground floor added in 1904, Tuscan timber pilasters to 9 bays, central pediment and entablature with dentil enriched cornice. Hipped roof, ridge-mounted chimneys having moulded caps. Part of rear range projects beyond north end to left, 3-window fenestration, all 12-pane sashes. Garage doors inserted in north end, ground floor altered. South end: 2-window fenestration, sashes as to front. Rear: gabled C17 house at centre of rear range, much altered when incorporated in c1800 alterations. Interior: fine curved open-well staircase with iron balustrade, stair hall with top lighting. c1800 gateway to north. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos xi, 1976, pp 184- 207)
Listing NGR: ST8626899892
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 184-207
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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