The Guild House
THE GUILD HOUSE, SHEEP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152366
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Guild House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUILD HOUSE, SHEEP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152366
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- The Guild House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUILD HOUSE, SHEEP 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:
- THE GUILD HOUSE, SHEEP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chipping Campden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP1495638964
Details
In the entry for:-
SP 14 38
7/212
CHIPPING CAMPDEN
SHEEP STREET
(West side)
The Guild House
the description shall be amended to read:
Former miller's house. Probably early C18, but said to have
earlier origins. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins
and dressings; hipped and half-hipped stone slate roof with
stack to rear right. 2 storeys with attic and basement;
2-window front. Flight of steps to off-centre right-hand
entrance, with part-glazed C19 door in wooden frame under
stone hood with carved brackets. 2/2-pane horned sashes
throughout in tooled surrounds with keystones. First-floor
band continues around house. Right return has plank door with
chamfered jambs and lintel, and 2-light chamfered
stone-mullioned window with metal multi-pane fixed light.
Hipped dormers. Phoenix fire insurance mark to front and
District fire insurance to rear.
Interior: boxed beams and ground-floor window shutters. Part
of C18 dentil cornice and panelled cupboards flanking
fireplace in right-hand front'room; open staircase to left,
and C18 roof structure with roughly chamfered purlins.
Historical note: this building was part of the premises
occupied by the Guild of Craftsmen - see The Old Silk Mill
(qv).
1.
5224
SP 1438
7/212
SHEEP STREET
(west side)
The Guild House
II
GV
2.
Early C18 altered. Two storeys, basement and attic. Rubble with band over ground
floor and hipped Cotswold stone roof. Hipped casement dormer. Two windows with
beaded surrounds, keys and bull-nose cills, cross-glazed sashes. Restored stone
brackets to hood over half-glazed door. Steps up to doorway.
One window to south return. Basement to south has a chamfered doorway and a mullion
window. Fire Insurance Mark. Probably built circa 1710 with the Silk Mill (qv).
Taken over by the Guild of Craftsmen under C R Ashbee when they moved from East London
in 1901.
Listing NGR: SP1495638964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 126268
- 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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