The Sanctuary (Forthampton Estate)
THE SANCTUARY (FORTHAMPTON ESTATE), SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091436
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary (Forthampton Estate)
- Statutory Address:
- THE SANCTUARY (FORTHAMPTON ESTATE), SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091436
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- The Sanctuary (Forthampton Estate)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE SANCTUARY (FORTHAMPTON ESTATE), SCHOOL LANE
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:
- THE SANCTUARY (FORTHAMPTON ESTATE), SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Forthampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85513 32487
Details
SO 8532 FORTHAMPTON SCHOOL LANE (east side)
7/69 The Sanctuary 10.1.55 (Forthampton Estate)
GV II
House, formerly functioning as solar block off hall (now Sanctuary Cottage q.v.) attached left. Built c1500, C19-early C20 extension. Close-studded timber-framing, red tile roof, painted brick extensions and stacks. Rectangular main body with central projecting porch with C19-early C20 extensions either side. Two- storey, 3-bay facade with central 2-storey gabled porch, lit by single light window with glazing bars, C19 plank door below with projecting tiled pitched canopy. C19 early C20 brick extensions with catslide roofs, projecting forwards either side of porch lit by C20 three-light casement with horizontal glazing bars and a 2- light casement with glazing bars respectively. Gabled access to former hall (now Sanctuary Cottage) upper left. Projecting right gable-end stack, C20 lateral stack right of gabled access to former hall. Original bargeboards with carved vine scroll decoration on projecting porch and foliate decoration on bargeboards at north gable end also original. Interior: deep flat-chamfered beams in ground floor rooms. Tudor-arched stone fireplace with moulded surround in former side wall of left-hand room. Upper left-hand room; central queen post truss with moulded soffit to tie beam and braces open wooden lattice with floral decoration at intersections and heraldic shield above tie. Carved wooden bosses 3 with shields, two with the engrailed cross of Tewkesbury Abbey and one with the arms of Clare impaling Audley, projecting from plain plastered ceilings in both upstairs rooms, other bosses with finely carved floral decoration. Brattished wallplate in both upstairs rooms. Loft inserted in part of ceiling of right-hand room. History; built by Tewkesbury Abbey, originally called St. Roberts, formerly included a chapel and dovecot. (V.C.H., Glos. Vol 8, p 197.)
Listing NGR: SO8551332487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 134189
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1969), 197
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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