Black Horse Ridge
BLACK HORSE RIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091744
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Black Horse Ridge
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK HORSE RIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1091744
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Black Horse Ridge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK HORSE RIDGE
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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:
- BLACK HORSE RIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Tewkesbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Witcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 92453 14391
Details
GREAT WITCOMBE BIRDLIP VILLAGE SO 9214
9/91 Black Horse Ridge
II
Former inn now house. C17 altered early C19 by R.A. Prothero. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins; pebble dash and render in places; corrugated tile roof; brick stacks. Rectangular plan with later extensions at right angles to rear. Two storeys, attic and cellar. Three-windowed facade. Two single-light windows with dressed stone surrounds lower right, probably lighting the cellar. Ground floor from right to left: C20 two-light stone- mullioned casement; single-light C20 casement with flat-chamfered surround; 3-light canted bay lit by one 16-pane and two 12-pane sashes far left, with a flat roof which is continued to the right to form a porch sheltering a plank doorway with rectangular stone tablet with the inscription "THE / COTTESWOLD NATURALISTS / FIELD CLUB / FIRST MET HERE / ON 7 JULY 1846'; blocked single-light window to the right. Three late C19-early C20 stone-mullioned casements, two with leaded panes to the first floor: single central hipped 2-light roof dormer. Two single-light windows with flat-chamfered surrounds to the left gable end, timber lintel to the left suggests there may once have been a gable entry. Gable- end stacks. An inn until 1900 when it was lived in and altered by R.A. Prothero (q.v. Leckhampton Court). Interior not inspected but reputed to contain a room with C17 panelling according to D. Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979.
Listing NGR: SO9245314391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135041
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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