FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171402
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT
Statutory Address:: FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171402
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT

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:: FORMER STABLE BLOCK ABOUT 70 METRES NORTH OF HIGHNAM COURT

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Highnam
National Grid Reference:: SO 79266 19434

Details

HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/39 Former stable block about 70m north of Highnam Court GV II Former stables and coach house, now offices and workshop. 1808 for Sir B.W. Guise. Plain rendered walls, ashlar parapet and cast-iron railings, slate roof. 'U'-plan, square courtyard, semi-circular railings to forecourt. Two storeys. Square ashlar gate piers, plinth, blind arch to each face, moulded cornice, panelled corner blocks with crenellations between: gates missing. Each side railings on stone cap to low brick wall sweep back to wings of stable block. Ends of wings plain. Left side courtyard, ground floor, 6 blind alternating narrow and wide semi-circular arches, plain stone impost blocks: narrow arches contain inset boarded doors, semi-circular cast-iron fanlights; wide arches semi- circular cast-iron windows, stone sills. End opening wide, boarded door. Main cross block paired double, boarded doors with cambered heads each side, 3-light window with cambered head centre, 4- panelled door to right. Right return 4 arches as left, front arch blind; paired double doors on right. First floor plain stone string course, 6 semi-circular arches to wings, 5 to centre block, inset cast-iron windows, except right wing, inset 3-light wooden casements. Crenellated parapet above with moulded string course, hipped roof. Centre of cross wing carried up as turret with clock face, low, pyramid roof behind crenellations, weathervane on apex. Forms group with Highnam Court and church (q.v.). (V.C.H. Gloucestershire, Vol X, 1972; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970)

Listing NGR: SO7926619434

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Legacy System number:: 134330
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,

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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.