County Library Dean House the Old School House (Including Front Boundary Wall and Piers)
COUNTY LIBRARY, STROUD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091584
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- County Library Dean House the Old School House (Including Front Boundary Wall and Piers)
- Statutory Address:
- COUNTY LIBRARY, STROUD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091584
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- County Library Dean House the Old School House (Including Front Boundary Wall and Piers)
- Statutory Address 1:
- COUNTY LIBRARY, STROUD ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- DEAN HOUSE, STROUD ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS), STROUD ROAD
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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:
- COUNTY LIBRARY, STROUD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- DEAN HOUSE, STROUD ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE (INCLUDING FRONT BOUNDARY WALL AND PIERS), STROUD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86570 09599
Details
PAINSWICK STROUD ROAD SO 8609/8709 (east side)
7/313 and 8/313 Dean House, County Library, and The Old School House (including front boundary wall and piers)
GV II
Formerly school and two teachers' houses, now two houses and public library. Dated 'Painswick National School: 1846'. Limestone ashlar, slate roof. Central, school section is lofty l½ storeys, with projecting 2½ storey balancing wings to coped gables on kneelers; at junction between centre and wings, deep ashlar stacks with 5 separate flues set diagonally, right, but cropped to ridge level, left. Centre unit 3-windowed with 2.4 2-light recessed chamfer casements with transome and pointed heads to lights, all under continuous string course and to left and right of these 4-centre arches with dropped floral bosses to outer edges, over plank and batten doors with 2-pane transome lights; at first floor in 2 small and one large gable, coped and with kneelers, 2.5.2-light casements with recessed chamfer moulding, and stopped drip to centre. Wings have 1 over 2 over 2-light recessed chamfer mullion casements under stopped drips. Returns in two storeys are 3-windowed, with contemporary door up steps and within gabled porches between 2-light casements, under 2.1.2-light case- ments. Interior of school section modified to form library. Full width of site has ashlar wall a 1 m high to saddle-back coping, and with four pairs of square piers to pyramid caps; the outer pairs only with original gates. A splendid composition in the Cotswold tradition, having historic interest and forming an important introductory feature on the approach from the South. (Glimpses of the History of Painswick, F A Hyett, 1957).
Listing NGR: SO8656609592
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 133503
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hyett, FA, Glimpses of the History of Painswick, (1957)
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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