Gawcombe House
GAWCOMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153958
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gawcombe House
- Statutory Address:
- GAWCOMBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153958
- Date first listed:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Gawcombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GAWCOMBE HOUSE
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:
- GAWCOMBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Westcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 21098 21337
Details
WESTCOTE - SP 22 SW 2/248 Gawcombe House GV II Large house. Late C17, early C18 and mid C19. Coursed squared and dressed limestone. Stone slate and concrete tile roofing with ashlar stacks. C20 extensions not of special interest. 'L'-shaped plan to the C17 range with C18 range set parallel to one side. C19 service wing at right angles to the right-hand return of the other wing. Mid C19 extension to the rear of the latter. C17 range; 2 storeys and attic: 3-light, double-chamfered stone-mullioned casement to the ground floor, ground floor otherwise obscured by C20 extensions. Similar 2 and 3-light stone-mullioned casements to the first floor. C18 range; 3 storeys with a twin-gabled garden front. Two French doors to the ground floor. Former sash windows to the first and second floors replaced by C20 aluminium sashes without glazing bars. Windows and doors within dressed stone surrounds. C19 range; 1 1/2 storeys with 5-light canted bay with stone mullions and transoms to the ground floor of the garden front. Stone cross window acting as a half dormer immediately above with 2-light stone-mullioned casement to the right. Stone- mullioned cross-windows to the left gable end. Single-storey, C19 entrance porch extension to the rear of the latter with a canted front and a C19 plank door with fillets, flanked by plain pilasters. Single-light and 2-light stone mullioned casements in the side walls. Flat coped gables. Gable-end and lateral stacks. (V.C.H., Glos. p173)
Listing NGR: SP2109821337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1965), 173
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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