BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE

BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE, ELMORE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154698
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE
Statutory Address:: BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE, ELMORE LANE

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Date:: 1999-08-21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1154698
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1985
List Entry Name:: BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE
Statutory Address 1:: BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE, ELMORE 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:: BRIDGE KEEPER'S HOUSE TO WEST OF REA BRIDGE, ELMORE LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Quedgeley
National Grid Reference:: SO 80517 15062

Details

SO 81 NW QUEDGELEY ELMORE LANE (south side) 2/159 Bridge keeper's house to west of Rea Bridge

II

Bridge keeper's house. c1830 with C20 addition; by Robert Mylne, engineer to the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal. Stucco; brick chimney; asbestos cement slate roof. Greek revival; single-storey; portico facing canal. Gable ends to original house with low-pitched pediment over continuous entablature. Front: portico off-centre to right with fluted Greek Doric order columns on circular bases: distyle in antis, with engaged flanking walls each with small square window; central doorway with original architraves and C20 glazed door; single C19 four-pane sash to left. South end: Cl9 four-pane sash; pediment filled and rendered. North end: C20 casement with glazed C20 door to left. Back: pediment on axis with portico; brick chimney; large C20 flat-roofed addition is not of special interest. An example of one of the 2 standard designs for bridge keeper's houses on the canal (c.f. that at Sellars Bridge, Hardwicke CP, q.v.), attributed to Mylne but executed after his death. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1976.)

Listing NGR: SO8051715062

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Sources

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Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

Legal

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