Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091210
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Firwood
- Statutory Address:
- FIRWOOD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091210
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Firwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRWOOD
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:
- FIRWOOD
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 88542 02507
Details
SO 8802-8902 CHALFORD BROWNSHILL
13/5 Firwood
28.6.60 II
Large detached house with chapel. Mid-late C17; extensive addition c1830; c1890 chapel added for Christopher Smith. Ashlar and random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; concrete tile, stone and Welsh slate roofs. Two-storey rectangular block added to end of two-storey with attic house; attached chapel on east side. South front: main elevation of c1830 house. Three-window fenestration, all 12-pane sashes except glazed doors to left. Two segmental 2-storey bows, ground floor openings in segmental arched recess; similar recess to central upper floor sash window. Central doorway with 8-panel fielded door, decorative rectangular light over and side lights, all with Regency architraves. Portico porch with Ionic columns in antis; moulded cornice with blocking course. Plain upper floor level band; moulded eaves cornice with blocking course. Three ball finials. C20 flat-roofed addition to right is not of special interest. West side: central ground floor and 2 upper floor sashes in plain openings; band and cornice continued from front. Scattered timber mullioned fenestration to earlier part of house to left, mostly with leaded iron casements and timber lintels. Two C20 raking roof dormers. Cl9 ridge- mounted chimney; roof hipped at north end with Cl9 attached outbuildings. East side: 2-window to ashlar elevation returned from front. Late C19 chapel linked to house by flat-roofed C20 addition which is not of special interest. Simple traceried chapel windows. Interior: doorways have Regency architraves. Elliptical staircase with stick balusters lit by oval domed roof-light. (M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO8854202507
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132799
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rudd, MA, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, (1935)
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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