Miserden House
MISERDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091225
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Miserden House
- Statutory Address:
- MISERDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091225
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Miserden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MISERDEN HOUSE
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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:
- MISERDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Miserden
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 93810 08865
Details
SO 9308 MISERDEN MISERDEN VILLAGE
10/174 Miserden House
GV II
Large detached house. Mid C18; additions and alterations dated JM 1810, 1863 for Sir John Rolt, and c1928 by Sidney Barnsley and Norman Jewson. Ashlar, coursed and random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic; 2- storey additions to each end. Front: 5-window fenestration to ashlar-fronted C18 house to centre, all sashes without glazing bars in openings with plain keyed architraves. Central flat-roofed single-storey porch with similar opening to doorway and small side windows. Plain upper floor level band and moulded cornice below plain parapet. Three hipped roof dormers. Ashlar chimneys with moulded caps to ends of main roof ridge. Gabled wing projects forward to left with upper floor 12-pane sash; parapet on south west side only. Long 2-storey range runs to right: first part has datestone: 'J.R. RESTORED 1863' and 2 gables with barge boards; C19 mullioned casements with hoodmoulds; hipped roof dormer between gables. Two further dormers to pre-C19 part at right end, casements being C20 replacements. Rear: part of original elevation left unaltered with 3 upper floor 12-pane sashes in plain keyed surrounds; leaded casement below and doorway with stone lintel dated: 'J M 1810'. Cross gabled addition of c1928 projects forward to left with timber-framed windows having leaded iron casements; off-centre projecting chimney stack to main gable. Tall parapet to wing projecting forward to right with leaded timber casement fenestration - this probably a mid C19 addition. North east end: hipped roof to cross wing; two 16-pane upper floor sashes, casements below. Interior: front room retains original fielded panelling, Regency fireplace being flanked by fluted full-height Doric pilasters. Oval arched alcove either side of fireplace. Cornice has fretwork decorative band. Main room of c1928 wing has decorative plaster frieze by Norman Jewson, depicting Cotswold animals, this treatment continued on plastered beams. Simply moulded stone fireplace. Stable (q.v.) to north east. (W.J. Shiels, 'Miserden' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 47-56)
Listing NGR: SO9381008865
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 47-56
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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