Springfield House Hotel

SPRINGFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, COWCOMBE HILL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1171143
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:
Springfield House Hotel
Statutory Address:
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, COWCOMBE HILL
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1171143
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1960
Date of most recent amendment:
24-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:
Springfield House Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, COWCOMBE HILL

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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:
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE HOTEL, COWCOMBE HILL

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Chalford
National Grid Reference:
SO 89670 02452

Details

SO 8802-8902 CHALFORD COWCOMBE HIL (south side)

13/34 Springfield House Hotel (previously listed as Springfield House, High Street) 28.6.60

II

Detached house, now hotel. 1838. Ashlar and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Two-storey; smaller 2-storey rear range. Front: 3-window fenestration. Central upper floor tripartite sash, outer lights with marginal glazing bars; outer upper floor 12-pane sashes. Later Cl9 glazed doors to ground floor, all windows with moulded architraves and louvred shutters. Central round arched doorway and flanking round arched windows with moulded architraves and imposts; 6-panel reeded door with fanlight. Tetrastyle Ionic porch with flat roof. Plain upper floor level band continued over slight central break forward and plain corner pilasters; stucco eaves cornice. Low hipped roof with projecting eaves. Sides: 2-window fenestration as to front, south side in coursed rubble. Lower rear range with 12 and 16-pane sashes. Through passage has doorway at south end with segmental arched head and jambs adapted from mid C17 doorway with lozenges in spandrels, this presumably indicating an earlier building on the site; 6-panel door and architraves are early C19. Interior: fine hall with central round archway on paired detached Ionic columns. Curved staircase beyond has decorative balusters and fine plaster ceiling; high-level round arched stair sash with marginal glazing bars. House recorded as 'newly erected' in 1838 for Handy and Jesse Davis, clothiers. (N.M. Herbert, 'Bisley' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 4-40; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8967002452

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
132828
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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 4-40

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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.

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