Watercombe House
WATERCOMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091248
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Watercombe House
- Statutory Address:
- WATERCOMBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091248
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Watercombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERCOMBE 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:
- WATERCOMBE 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 92516 04915
Details
SO 9204-9304 BISLEY-WITH-LYPIATT WATERLANE 16/132 Watercombe House
30.1.74 GV II
Detached house. Early C18, considerably rebuilt 1799-1833 by Thomas Baker for himself. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar and rendered brick chimneys; stone and Welsh slate roofs. Double-pile plan, 3-storey. Two-storey service and stable addition at north end. East front: 3-window fenestration, all 3-light small-paned timber casements with timber lintels; hoodmoulds above ground and middle floor casements. Central doorway with Regency architraves, double panelled doors and wrought iron porch with tent roof, ironwork incorporating initials 'T B" and date '1844'. Ends: 2 gable-mounted chimneys to each end, north service addition having east-facing 3-light chamfered mullioned casements and doorway with timber lintel. Service wing roof hipped at north end, north elevation having oval arched coach doorway and round arched stable door with fanlight. Ridge-mounted chimney is initialled 'T B' and dated '1833' and '1799' to front and rear faces respectively. Rear: central oval arched doorway enters at middle floor level, bridge spanning deep area. Doorway now blocked with casement. Two 3-light mullioned casements to ground floor; leaded casements to upper floors. Interior: doorways and fireplaces with bold reeded architraves having roundels to corners. Staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail terminals. Part of original spiral stair retained in south gable. Service wing contains fine timber cider press with wooden screw, dated '1811 T.B.'. Small summer house stands on garden terrace to south west (q.v.). (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO9251604915
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132691
- 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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