THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1154568
Date first listed: 25-Aug-1960
Date of most recent amendment: 30-Jan-1987
Statutory Address: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Gloucestershire
District: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish: Bledington
National Grid Reference: SP2460222904
Details
BLEDINGTON CHAPEL LANE
SP 2422
(south side)
12/41 The Steward's House and Manor
Cottage
25.8.60 (formerly listed as Manor Cottages
II
House at centre of row of 3 buildings. Formerly one house, divided
into 3 cottages C19, now two. C17, with later single storey C19
and C20 extensions either side. Coursed squared and dressed
limestone, stone slate roof, ashlar stack twined with brick stack,
2 artificial stone stacks on ashlar stumps. Rectangular main body
with C19 former wash house extension rear left. Almost symmetrical
facade with single storey C20 kitchen extension right and rear wall
of single storey lean-to store left. Main body; 2 storeys and
attic lit by 3 Cotswold dormers with 2-light stone-mullioned
casements, 3 and 4-light double-chamfered stone-mullioned
casements. Lower left-hand window C20 replacement with blocked
doorway left. All windows with stopped hoods and horizontal
glazing bars. Plank door off centre left. Flat coping to dormers
and gable ends. Roll-cross saddles at right gable end and on
Cotswold dormers. Twin left gable end stack, twin axial diagonally
set stacks off centre right.
Interior: formerly 3-room plan with linking doors against the rear
wall. Former central room retains part of raised plasterwork
frieze c2m long by cO.4m deep. The central part of the frieze is
decorated with vine scroll decoration, the upper margin with
bursting seed pods and griffins, the lower with foliate decoration,
inglenook fireplace with moulded Tudor arched bressumer in same
room. Spine beam with ogee stops. Fragment of plaster work of
similar dimensions and with similar marginal decoration in left-
hand room (Manor Cottage) over fireplace. Central band decorated
with a repeated motif comprising a forward facing head flanked by
foliate 'S' scrolls incorporating grotesque faces in profile.
Stone 'Tudor'-arched fireplace below with carved spandrels, similar
fireplace in bedroom above. Reputed to have been built as house
for Winchcombe Abbey's manorial steward.
Listing NGR: SP2460222904
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 130153
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.
End of official listing