Blue Close
BLUE CLOSE, RECTORY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153383
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Close
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE CLOSE, RECTORY LANE
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- 2003-03-06
- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153383
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Close
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE CLOSE, RECTORY LANE
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:
- BLUE CLOSE, RECTORY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Rissington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 19720 17207
Details
GREAT RISSINGTON RECTORY LANE SP 1917-2017 9/190 Blue Close GV II One of a pair of cottages (q.v. Blue Close Cottage). Mid C17. Coursed roughly squared and dressed limestone with dressed stone quoins. Concrete tile roof with an ashlar stack. Rectangular plan with gable end to road. Two storeys and attic lit by a single- light garret window with a double-chamfered surround and a moulded hood and horizontal glazing bars. Original 3-light double- chamfered stone-mullioned casement with horizontal glazing bars, stopped hood and hollow-moulded mullions below. Early C20 flat- chamfered stone-mullioned casement also with a stopped hood to the ground floor of the gable end. Three-windowed entrance front with an original 2-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement to the first floor. C20 single-light with a flat-chamfered concrete stone surround and a 2-light metal casement within a cambered- headed surround to the left. Three-light hollow-chamfered stone- mullioned casement with a stopped hood to the ground floor, right of a C19 plank door under a projecting gabled canopy supported on wooden brackets. Two-light metal casement within a cambered-headed surround to the left. Small early fixed 2-light window with a timber lintel below the eaves on the opposite side. Stack at gable end facing the road with moulded capping and flat-chamfered skirting. Axial stack with squared off capping and eroded skirting. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: SP1972017207
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130923
- 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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