Stroud Court
STROUD COURT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172026
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stroud Court
- Statutory Address:
- STROUD COURT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172026
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Stroud Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- STROUD COURT
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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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- STROUD COURT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minchinhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86688 99342
Details
ST 89 NE MINCHINHAMPTON AVENING VALLEY
7/171 Stroud Court
GV II
Former large mill-owner's house, now autistic residential home; c1800 for William Playne; considerable c1830 enlargement to east. 1892 remodelling and addition of staircase hall, billiard room and conservatory. Coursed rubble and squared dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh and asbestos slate roofs. Central 2-storey range with 3-storey end blocks. North (entrance) front: 2 balancing 3-storey blocks each with 3-window fenestration, 12-pane sashes to ground and middle floors, 6-pane to upper floor. Modillion eaves cornice to each block with blocking course. Block to right is original c1800 house with central projecting porch having Tuscan pedimented doorway with double panelled doors. Ground floor of left block is obscured by single-storey service wing behind screen wall. Central linking range together with left block are c1830, central range having off-centre hipped roofed staircase wing with 3 large sash windows having marginal glazing bars. Flat-roofed enclosed porch below. Chimneys are generally parapet mounted on end walls of each block, each with swept base and plain caps. West end: 2-window fenestration, Venetian windows to ground floor, tripartite sashes to floors above. South (garden) side: original 3-window fenestration of outer blocks disturbed by later additions, left (west) block receiving off-centre 2-storey canted bay window, single-storey billiard room addition to right block has canted mullioned and transomed bay window with Venetian windows at centre. Glazed sky-light at centre of roof. Interior: many rooms retain reeded cornices and Regency architraves, original staircase in west block having been destroyed in C20 fire. Hall in central range extensively remodelled in Jacobean revival style, possibly by F.S. Waller, large open well timber staircase having heavy newel posts with solid pyramidal finials; some linenfold panelling. Stone hall fireplace also Jacobean in style. Billiard room (date panel 'Oct 17 1892' on external wall with initials 'ATP' and 'MEP') has coved timber ceiling, stained glass to skylight. The extensive additions to this house are indicative of the success of the woollen cloth manufacturing at the nearby Longfords Mills, Stroud Court originally being named Longfords House. Dominates view from road on opposite side of valley. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184- 207; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1976)
Listing NGR: ST8668899342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132964
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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), 184-207
Legal
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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