STEPS HOUSE

STEPS HOUSE, WOODEND LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170505
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1983
List Entry Name:: STEPS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STEPS HOUSE, WOODEND LANE

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Date:: 2002-05-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1170505
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1983
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Apr-1984
List Entry Name:: STEPS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STEPS HOUSE, WOODEND 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:: STEPS HOUSE, WOODEND LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Cam
National Grid Reference:: SO7473000683

Details

SO 70 SW 1/40 23.6.83

CAM WOODEND LANE (north side) Lower Cam Steps House (formerly listed as Steps Farmhouse)

II*

Large detached dwelling, previously listed as Steps Farmhouse. Late C16 and early C17. Rough rendered, some painted rubble on returns, stone slate roof. U-plan, but with gabled wing, left, projecting also at back, twin gables to street, left one coped with kneelers and with ball finial to saddle stone; two Cotswold gables to south-west similarly coped, and back gable, coped, with stone slack. Major stack also at ridge, left of main entrance, and on back slope of central arm. Two storeys and attic, plus basement in left wing. In gabled end, left, small openings in plinth, to basement, then 1-windowed, 2-5 light hollow chamfer mullioned casements with drips, and 3-light wood casement in gable, rough ovolo mould lintol and wood drip; central recessed block, broad 2-panelled door in wide frame; gable, right 1-windowed, wood mullioned casements and modern wood drips, 4, 5, 4-light. Garden front (south-west), 3-windowed, includes 5-light casements at first floor, central modern door and porch. Interior retains many original features, but not fireplaces, except bolection-mould surround at ground floor, main gable back, left. Stone stair to cellar, two wood spiral stairs, including some solid treads to kitchen stair at second floor level. Some heavy timber framing, remains of wattle and daub filling, heavy haunched roof principals. Court cupboard from time of George II with open balustered top; salt cupboard Jacobean doors. This was the home of the Trotman family, follers, in Elizabethan times; a major rebuilding occurred in 1618, and much of this remains.

Listing NGR: SO7473000683

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Legacy System number:: 131458
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.