Abnash House and Retaining Wall
ABNASH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, ABNASH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091207
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Abnash House and Retaining Wall
- Statutory Address:
- ABNASH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, ABNASH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091207
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Abnash House and Retaining Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- ABNASH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, ABNASH
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:
- ABNASH HOUSE AND RETAINING WALL, ABNASH
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 89324 03167
Details
SO 8803-8903 CHALFORD ABNASH, Chalford Hill (south-west side)
10/2 Abnash House and retaining wall 28.6.60 II
Detached house and high retaining wall. Early-mid C17; altered mid-late C18. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Three-storey with single-storey rear wing. North west front: earliest part to right, originally with 2 full gables, infilled in C18 addition of upper storey. Three- window fenestration to earliest part, 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements to ground and middle floors, central upper floor 2-light, all below continuous dripmoulds. Two-light with hoodmould in each former gable with larger 2-light set in between. Central doorway with C20 door and gabled porch addition. Addition to left also formerly with full gable, single 3-light to each floor, ground floor window altered to doorway. Three ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded tops. Gable ends each have 2 oval windows and indications of original roof-line. Rear: fenestration and additional storey as to front, several mullioned windows replaced in C20. Small single-storey service wing. High retaining wall adjoins building at north east end, 2 large raking buttresses supporting high-level roadway. Interior: small Jacobean open-well staircase with turned balusters. Moulded fireplaces at south-west end. One very large fireplace with pointed stone lintel has shell hddd niche adjacent. (M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937)
Listing NGR: SO8932403167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132796
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rudd, MA, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, (1935)
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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