OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115010
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL
Statutory Address:: OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1115010
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL
Statutory Address 1:: OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: OFFICES,STABLEBLOCK AND COACH HOUSES AND ENCLOSING WALLS IMMEDIATELY NORTH OF LEYHILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tortworth
National Grid Reference:: ST 69357 92617

Details

ST 69 SE TORTWORTH TORTWORTH PARK

1/138 Offices, Stableblock and Coach- houses and Enclosing Walls G.V. immediately north of Leyhill II

Offices, stables and coachhouses and enclosing walls; now workshops and a Prison Service Museum. Circa 1850 by S.S. Teulon. The stables, coachhouses and workshops enclose three sides of a square yard. Coursed rubble with Bath stone dressings; plain and fish scale tiled roofs. West range: single storey range of 6 stables, now workshops; plank doors and single and 2-light casement windows; projecting pentice over setted walkway. North range: in the centre is a 2 storey, 3 bay groom's quarters with 3 gables, three 3-light cross windows and 3 plank doors in chamfered surrounds and under relieving arches; to the left is a single storey 2 bay stable range; to the right are 3 coach-houses with chamfered, depressed arch surrounds. East range: to the north are 3 coach- houses as on the north range; in the centre is an entrance tower with a 4-centred arch carriageway, gables to all 4 sides above and a central clock tower with a tiled base and a louvred lantern surmounted by an ogee dome; to the south'is a single storey range with three 2-light casement windows. A tall rubble quadrant wall then joins the east range to a 4-centred archway which has, on the south side, a further quadrant wall with a single storey dairy built against it, which returns to the north east corner of the house. Across the centre of the yard is a freestanding range of buildings. In the centre is an octagonal game larder: 2-light casement windows to each elevation; plank door under a Y-tracery window; octagonal louvred lantern and plain tiled roof. Flanking the larder are single storey workshop buildings with hipped roofs and to the west is a former brewhouse or gasworks: square 2 storey tower at the west end, hipped roof and large octagonal louvred lantern, three 2-light casement windows, clustered octagonal brick stacks; 2 storey east range which ends in a gable cross wing. (The Builder, 29.10.1853 and 19.11.1853).

Listing NGR: ST6935792617

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 34735
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Builder' in 19 November, (1853)
'The Builder' in 29 October, (1853)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.