Butcher's Shop Great Wadley the Old George

BUTCHER'S SHOP

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156231
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Butcher's Shop Great Wadley the Old George
Statutory Address:
BUTCHER'S SHOP
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1156231
Date first listed:
17-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:
Butcher's Shop Great Wadley the Old George
Statutory Address 1:
BUTCHER'S SHOP
Statutory Address 2:
GREAT WADLEY
Statutory Address 3:
THE OLD GEORGE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
BUTCHER'S SHOP
Statutory Address:
GREAT WADLEY
Statutory Address:
THE OLD GEORGE

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 69825 31394

Details

DYMOCK THE VILLAGE SO 63 SE (south side)

4/126 The Old George, Butcher's Shop, Great Wadley

GV II

Former Inn, now house, shop and house. Probably all early C19. Brick, English garden wall bond to plinth, Flemish bond above: tiled roofs. 'L'-plan, 2-storey wing on left projecting to road, 3 storey set back on right, 4 windows wide. Facade to road: on right single-storey projecting garage and long, shallow steps not of special interest. High plinth: 6-panel front door at top of steps, upper fielded, bottom 2 flush, semi-circular fanlight with radiating glazing bars: fluted Doric pilasters each side, each with separate cornice: open floor to pediment, mutules on soffit. Either side 16-pane sash, rubbed brick arch. First floor similar windows each side, ordinary sash in centre with rubbed brick arch; date plaque '1884 B' between 2 left windows, significance not clear. Second floor shallow windows, 8 pane sash either side, 6 in centre; timber fascia: ridge chimney on left and on right gable. To left shop, of same build: tall, 6-pane window, rubbed brick arch on ground floor. In corner, stable door up 4 stone steps, bottom 2 fielded panels, top 6 glazed panes: cambered brick arch. First floor 3-light casement, iron-opening light, cambered brick arch. Second floor flat-headed 3-light casement: eaves as house on right, at same level: chimney on left gable. Projecting wing (Old George), right return with boarded door to cellar, cambered brick arch. Ground floor, at rear, 2-pane sash, rubbed brick arch. Above 2-light mullion and transom window, flat head. Dentil eaves. Front: ground floor: canted bay, 16-pane sash, flat, lead roof. Above 4-pane casement on left, 16-pane sash with flat head over bay. Dentil eaves, hipped roof, extending on narrow lean-to on left, of same build. Entrance to projecting wing on left return. Forms group with The Old Cottage and Ann Cam's School (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO6982531394

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Legacy System number:
125944
Legacy System:
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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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