Waterlane House
WATERLANE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091247
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Waterlane House
- Statutory Address:
- WATERLANE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1091247
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Waterlane House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERLANE 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:
- WATERLANE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bisley-with-Lypiatt
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92317 04938
Details
SO 9204-9304 BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT WATERLANE
16/130 Waterlane House
1.11.73
II*
Large detached house. Part C17, extensively rebuilt and extended 1845 by Thomas Baker. Alterations and additions 1907-8 by Ernest Gimson for F.F. McMeekan. Coursed and random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey block; east end and attics added; single-storey outbuilding range to west. South front: 3-window fenestration to C19 front to left, all timber cross-windows with leaded casements. Central doorway with 6-panel door, ironwork porch dated 1845. Two full gables added to this elevation by Gimson, attic casements lining-through with those below. C20 extension of house to right includes gabled 2-storey porch, doorway having double plank doors and deep stone lintel; 3- light stone-mullioned casement above. Angled ground floor window to left. Full gable to elevation further right; 2 ground floor stone mullioned cross windows, single upper floor timber cross window and attic casement on centre-line of gable. Two ridge- mounted chimneys at gable ends of C19 house. Rear wing at east end of house has chimney inscribed 'MCM 1908'. Rear: gabled addition to rear of C19 structure has mullioned and transomed ground floor casement; 3-light above. Casements with timber lintels to remainder of rear elevation. West end: 2-storey projection with hipped roof and chimney dated 1845 appears remodelling of C17 house, L-plan outbuilding with pigeon-holes in south gable being contemporary. Interior: Regency style doorcases and fireplaces in C19 part, staircase having stick balusters and scrolled landing fascia. Open-well timber staircase in hall to rear of C20 addition is a fine example of Cotswold craftmanship with chamfered square balustrade framing having plank panels, so unusual as to be certainly Gimson's own work. Wide boarded floors, plank doors (all with Bucknell ironmongery) and beamed ceilings are all typical of Gimson's interior work. Simple stone fireplaces with plain mantelshelfs having large chamfered openings. An important example of Gimson's architectural work with virtually all the Arts and Crafts fittings still in place. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO9231704938
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132689
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 4-40
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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