Great Sandpits
GREAT SANDPITS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091422
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Great Sandpits
- Statutory Address:
- GREAT SANDPITS
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- Date:
- 2002-10-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/07703/20
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091422
- Date first listed:
- 12-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Great Sandpits
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREAT SANDPITS
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:
- GREAT SANDPITS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tirley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 83387 29658
Details
TIRLEY - SO 82 NW 3/137 Great Sandpits
II
Detached house. Mid C17, early C18 and C19. Red brick, blue lias, red tile roof, brick stacks. L-shaped main body with limestone quoins, wing rear right largely rebuilt C19. C18-C19 extension set back right of main body. Two storey, 3-windowed facade lit by 3 and 4-light ovolo-moulded stone- mullioned windows, some with transoms. Early studded plank door off-centre right with decorative strap hinges within stone Tudor-arched surround with foliate spandrels, within C20 latticework porch. Window left of door blocked. Partly blocked window right of porch, brick inscribed George Smith July 19th 1774 within blocking, ovolo- moulded stone-mullioned window set lower down partly with blocking. String between ground and first floor windows. Stone ovolo-moulded cross window with leaded panes lighting ground floor at left gable end. Four-light stone-mullioned window with transom windows above. Two-storey extension right of main body lit by C20 two-light casements, band between ground and first floors. Interior of front left-hand room: tie beams with bar stops. Plasterwork between tie beams with simple combed decoration at margins and fleur-de-lys decoration at each corner, one fleur-de- lys restored C20 (q.v. plasterwork ceiling at The Great house, Hasfield). Open fireplace with small range and chimney crane. House owned by William Hurdman in 1658 (q.v. monument in nave of church). (V.C.H. Glos., VOL.8).
Listing NGR: SO8338729658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134257
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1969)
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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