Bodkin House
BODKIN HOUSE, PETTY FRANCE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129375
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bodkin House
- Statutory Address:
- BODKIN HOUSE, PETTY FRANCE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1129375
- Date first listed:
- 17-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Nov-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Bodkin House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BODKIN HOUSE, PETTY FRANCE
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:
- BODKIN HOUSE, PETTY FRANCE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7873485415
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 5 July 2017.
ST 78 NE
4/169
HAWKESBURY
PETTY FRANCE (east side)
Bodkin House
(formerly listed as Sir Derek Gunston's Cottages formerly Old Beaufort Arms Inn)
17.9.52
GV
House, now a house and restaurant. Early C18, possibly a remodelling of a C17 house, altered early-mid C19. Rendered,on ashlar plinth; reproduction stone slate roof; ashlar stacks with cornice. Two storeys, cellars and attics in three gabled dormers. Five windows and door on ground floor, including one in lower wing to right; eight windows on first floor. Eighteen-pane, thick glazing bar sash windows in exposed boxes; Two early-mid C19 bay windows on ground floor; ashlar plinth and blocking course. Projecting Tuscan column porch with plain entablature, cornice and blocking course; panelled door. Extensive rear wings.
Interior; stop chamfered beam and large ashlar fireplace in rear wing; shell headed cupboard in ground floor left room. Jane Austen reputedly visited the inn, then the Old Beaufort Arms Inn in around 1794. She mentioned the house in ‘Northanger Abbey’.
Listing NGR: ST7873485415
This listing was enhanced in 2017 to mark the bicentenary of Jane Austen's death.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34383
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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