Callowell House, including outbuilding to the north

Callowell, Stroud, GL6 6EA

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

An early-C19 house constructed of hammerdressed limestone. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170352
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:: Callowell House, including outbuilding to the north
Statutory Address:: Callowell, Stroud, GL6 6EA

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1170352
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-2020
List Entry Name:: Callowell House, including outbuilding to the north
Statutory Address 1:: Callowell, Stroud, GL6 6EA

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Callowell, Stroud, GL6 6EA

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Stroud
National Grid Reference:: SO8438106510

Summary

An early-C19 house constructed of hammerdressed limestone.

Reasons for Designation

Callowell House, of early-C19 date, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural interest:

* as an elegant and neatly designed early-C19 dwelling with a strong architectural presence achieved through its distinguished built form; * constructed using good quality workmanship and materials, including limestone elevations with quoins and a stone-flagged basement; * the small stone outbuilding adds interest to the group and is a modest building that is an increasingly uncommon survival.

Historic interest: * it represents important surviving evidence of the historic character of the area.

Group value:

* with other Grade II listed buildings in Callowell on the steep hill overlooking Painswick Valley.

History

Callowell House is of early-C19 date and had been extended to the rear (west) in two phases by the First Edition of the Ordnance Survey (OS) in 1885. The additions included a north-west wing, to form an L-plan. The outbuilding to the north is also shown on the 1885 map. The external stairs to the basement alongside the north wall are shown on the OS Map of 1902 and a glasshouse is shown against the south end wall on the OS Map of 1936. The house was reordered with a further addition to the end of the north-west wing in the mid-C20, as shown on the OS Map of 1975, and the building subsequently served as two dwellings. Callowell House had reverted to single occupancy by the C21. In the later-C20 the timber sash windows and roof coverings were replaced, and other alterations made.

Details

A dwelling of early-C19 date with later additions.

MATERIALS: constructed of hammerdressed, coursed rubblestone with ashlar dressings and stone cills. The pitched roofs are covered in concrete tile and there are three ashlar chimneystacks. There are stone flags to the cellar. Window frames are uPVC and aluminium.

PLAN: of three storeys and arranged as a three bay, single-depth building plus partial basement with a later-C19 wing to form an L-plan (enlarged in the mid-C20). There is also a late-C19 two-storey addition to the central and south bay of the rear of the house.

EXTERIOR: the symmetrical three-bay façade faces east and has two steps to the central door and ashlar quoins and architraves to the openings. The attic floor openings are smaller. The north flank has a single ground-floor opening to the right, in the later-C19 wing, and there are stone cellar stairs to the left. To the right is the rendered mid-C20 concrete extension with an opening to both floors. To the rear, two flights of concrete stairs over a C20 single-storey extension serve a pair of first-floor doors. To the right of the doors, in the late-C19 wing, is a casement opening to the first floor and an opening with a stone mullion above. The late-C19 lean-to has a door to the left and irregular fenestration. The south end of the house has an attached timber glasshouse/ conservatory with glazing above low stone walls.

INTERIOR: the internal layout was reordered in the mid-C20 and the stair replaced with a new lateral staircase to the rear. The few historic fittings include panelled doors, a glazed door to the conservatory, some other joinery such as glazed fitted cupboards to the ground floor, and a timber fireplace to one bedroom. The roof structure is of sawn timbers secured with iron bolts. The interior stone stair from cellar to house has been sealed in concrete. The ledged plank cellar door has iron strap hinges.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: there is a rubblestone outbuilding with a monopitch roof attached to a drystone wall to the north of the house. It stands on the edge of the retaining wall that extends in front of the house.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 131370
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.