GREAT HOUSE

GREAT HOUSE, CASTLE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171688
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GREAT HOUSE, CASTLE STREET

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Date:: 2003-09-28
Reference:: IOE01/11516/15
Rights:: © Mr Peter Harnwell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171688
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: GREAT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT HOUSE, CASTLE STREET

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:: GREAT HOUSE, CASTLE STREET

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Winchcombe
National Grid Reference:: SP 02559 28237

Details

SP 02 NW WINCHCOMBE CASTLE STREET (south side) 4/17 Great House 4.7.60

- II

Detached house. Late C17 or early C18. Limestone ashlar, very steeply pitched hipped roof with stone slate, over wood modillion cornice, large ashlar and brick stack with moulded capping and skirt on left, with saddle- back to main roof slope. A compact plan with a cross-passage (now blocked); levels within have been modified in late C20 to cope with flooding from adjacent stream. Elevation to road 2 storeys and attic, small hipped dormer with sash, 2-light transomed hollow chamfer mullioned, flush surround at first floor over 16-pane C19 sash with broad surround; lean-to extension, left. Main entrance front, right, 2 storeys and attic 4-windowed, single hipped dormer with sash over cross mullioned 2-light casements as street front, but one window blocked, over large sash with glazing bars, left, doorway, now blocked, with plain elliptical oculus over, and two 2-light cross-mullioned casements. On south wall ground floor includes 3-light mullion and transome casement to same detail. Entrance now by C20 door on east front, but at original outer wall, adjacent to stack, is doorway with 4-centred moulded head, no door. Interior: two 'Tudor' fireplaces, possibly of C17, raised and curtailed, in modifications, various stepped chamfer beams. No original staircase. See also photograph in NMR.

Listing NGR: SP0255628239

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Legacy System number:: 133915
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.