Skaiteshill House

Skaiteshill House, Skaiteshill

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091162
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:: Skaiteshill House
Statutory Address:: Skaiteshill House, Skaiteshill

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Date:: 2006-06-28
Reference:: IOE01/15847/33
Rights:: © Mr Stanley Dicker. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091162
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:: Skaiteshill House
Statutory Address 1:: Skaiteshill House, Skaiteshill

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Skaiteshill House, Skaiteshill

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Chalford
National Grid Reference:: SO 88773 02486

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 February 2025 to amend details in the Description and to reformat the text to current standards

SO 8802-8902 13/94

CHALFORD SKAITESHILL (north side) Skaiteshill House

28.6.60

GV II

Detached house. c1805. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Three-storey central stair hall plan; Two-storey with attic rear wing, probably incorporating earlier small house. South front: fenestration 1:1:1. Central windows to middle and upper floor both tripartite sashes with fluted square columns and paterae. Otherwise sashes in plain openings, 12-pane to ground and middle floor, six-pane to upper floor. Central doorway with detached columns and fluted capitals, panelled entablature projecting forward. Round arched door opening with double glazed doors and decorative fanlight. Plain plinth and upper floor level bands. Modillion cornice with low parapet. Sides: two-window sash fenestration as to front. East-facing rear wing has mixed sash fenestration in segmental arched surrounds. Doorway with flat hood on brackets and six-panel fielded door. Single eaves-mounted dormer.

Interior: entrance hall separated from staircase by arcade with detached columns and fine opposed doorcases to principal rooms. Curved staircase with stick balusters and swept handrail lit by oval lantern. One room has unusual corner pilasters and recent hand-painted wallpaper. Coach house to north east (q.v.), garden wall with steps and sundial to west (q.v.) and entrance gateway (q.v.) all in landscaped gardens.

(D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8877302486

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Legacy System number:: 132888
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.