THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE

THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154568
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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Date:: 2003-05-25
Reference:: IOE01/10595/07
Rights:: © Mr Anthony Rau. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154568
Date first listed:: 25-Aug-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE STEWARD'S HOUSE AND MANOR COTTAGE, CHAPEL LANE

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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

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Legacy System number:: 130153
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.