The Fiery Beacon
THE FIERY BEACON, NEW STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152605
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Fiery Beacon
- Statutory Address:
- THE FIERY BEACON, NEW STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152605
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Fiery Beacon
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE FIERY BEACON, NEW 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 FIERY BEACON, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86637 09737
Details
PAINSWICK NEW STREET SO 8609-8709 (north west side)
8/162 The Fiery Beacon GV II House in row, with art gallery. Mid Cl9 front, but C18 work behind. Limestone ashlar, slate roof. At narrow frontage set gable to street, in a Tudor Gothic front to an earlier body: steep gable drops to short haunches. One window width in 4 storeys; to ground and first floors a wide, square bay with battlements, central recessed glazed door in 4-centred opening flanked by single pointed lights all to square head, with small buttresses in 2 offsets at corners, above this a 4-light stone mullioned casement, pointed heads under square opening to moulding below battlements, and single light returns. At second floor a 2-light, and in gable single light Tudor windows set to stopped hood moulds. At the back of the building a bull's-eye opening above a 12-pane C18 sash. To the right a large square stack. A very attractive little composition acting as a foil to the grand Beacon House (qv) adjoining.
Listing NGR: SO8663509735
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133347
- 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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