HILL ASH HOUSE

HILL ASH HOUSE, LEDBURY ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155744
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: HILL ASH HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HILL ASH HOUSE, LEDBURY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1155744
Date first listed:: 17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: HILL ASH HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HILL ASH HOUSE, LEDBURY ROAD

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:: HILL ASH HOUSE, LEDBURY ROAD

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Dymock
National Grid Reference:: SO 70020 32008

Details

DYMOCK LEDBURY ROAD SO 73 SW (west side)

5/82 Hill Ash House

II

House. Probably early C18, altered early Cl9 and early C20. Rendered front, lined as ashlar, Flemish-bond brickwork returns: slate roof: tiled to rear. Four-window front, 3 rooms deep, 3 storeys. Front elevation; centre breaks forward for full height. Ground floor 4-bay open Doric portico, fluted columns, square bases: behind 8-panel door, moulded surround, intersecting glazing bars to rectangular fanlight. Outside porch left and right 16-pane sash, flat head. Plain string to first floor: two 16-pane sashes in projecting centre over porch, cambered heads; an ordinary sash in returns, 16-pane sash with flat head each side. Second floor windows as below, but all 2-light casement. Wide projection moulded stone cornice, plain parapet set back behind. Hipped roof: rendered chimneys on ends. To left set back single-window, 2- storey projection, flat roof, 16-pane sashes facing front. To right single-storey wing, parapet, 16-pane sash. Internally front altered to a single room, Jacobean-style fireplace on left, dogleg stairs on right, cut string, 3 turned balusters per tread (one spiral, one fluted, one spiral fluted, all gadrooned): wreath at bottom, moulded handrail, square newels: may be reset. Six-panel doors to rear. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; the Rev. J.E. Gethyn-Jones, Dymock down the Ages, 1966)

Listing NGR: SO7002032008

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 125900
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gethyn-Jones, J E, Dymock down the Ages, (1966)
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.