The Tanhouse
THE TANHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186457
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Tanhouse
- Statutory Address:
- THE TANHOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186457
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Tanhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TANHOUSE
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.
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:
- THE TANHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blaisdon
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 70192 16691
Details
SO 71 NW BLAISDON BLAISDON VILLAGE
7/13 The Tanhouse
GV II
House, C17, altered C18 and extended about 1920. Brick, in Flemish bond with occasional English course, stone plinth, tiled roof. Rubble stone base to chimney in gable, also side wall to rear wing and back and side to 1920 extension. 2 storey, 2-room front, 'L' plan. Late C18 brick front wall. Front door slightly off centre to right, with projecting hood over, 2-light casement windows, one each side per floor; eaves, cogged dentil course. Rear brick wall to main house has plain string course, and elliptical-headed windows with brick-on-end voussoirs. The two ground floor windows reduced in size: one of the two first floor has 4-light ovolo- moulded frame. Entrance direct to main room, with moulded axial ceiling and wall beams; below centre beam jowl carved IHMI 1669: beams may be of this date or possibly reused. Beams in room to left and on first floor had pyramid stops terminating in a stylised flower, on a large chamfer. Staircase in rear wing has heavy moulded handrail with turned balusters: it has been reset. Wall between main front and rear wing timber-framed, with lower wall plate than present brick structure: top of corner post visible in gable. Rear wing containing stairs rebuilt on two sides in mid C20 and later extended. J. Dowding, died 1896, who developed Blaisdon Red Plum, lived here (VCH Gloucestershire X, 1972, p.6).
Listing NGR: SO7019216691
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354081
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 6
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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