8, HIGH STREET
8, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136773
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 8, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1136773
- Date first listed:
- 21-Sept-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- 8, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, HIGH STREET
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:
- 8, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Thornbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 63659 90100
Details
THORNBURY HIGH STREET 4/50 (west side) ST 6390 21.9.52 No 8 (formerly listed as premises immediately north of White Lion Hotel) GV II
Later C16 origins. Altered in C17 and C18. Rendered. Pantile roof, C19 brick stacks. Two storeys. Three windows; 4-light casements with chamfered mullions; ground floor right (north) has a transom. At south end a 3-bay wooden portico with carved columns and frieze shelters two doors. (See also item 41111). To right is studded plank door with strap hinges, in scroll-moulded and stopped frame. To left is fixed door with cambered head and ovolo moulded frame, decorative panel beneath. North wall has projecting stack with offsets. Interior: Formerly cross passage (now removed) with hall and parlour to right and possibly unheated room to left. South room has 5 inch stop-chamfered beam. Door to hall has inserted C18 board head with elliptical arch and carved keystone. Hall. Fireplace with chamfered stone jambs: adjoining plain spice cupboard. Beams with double ogee moulding. Panelled screen with moulded surrounds divides Hall and Parlour which has frame ceiling of 9 panels formed by chamfered beam. Winder Stair. Late C17 balustrade. Chamfered beams upstairs. Tie beam truss roof. C18/C19 rear wing. Sources: L Hall (1982), Report in NMR.
Listing NGR: ST6365990100
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34953
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hall, L, City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6 in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (1983)
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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