Dean Hall

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SO 61 SE LITTLEDEAN NEWNHAM ROAD (east side)

10/102 Dean Hall

23.9.55 II*

House: C17,18,19, with evidence of earlier work. Stone, entrance facade plain render, with ashlar windows, porch coursed, squared stone with ashlar dressings, left side and gable on right rough render lined to look like wide-jointed ashlar; some brick to courtyard and back wing; roofs tiled generally, a few slopes stone slates. Large, irregular square enclosing courtyard. Entrance facade three floors, six 2-light windows wide, with straight hoodmoulds, slightly irregular spacing: mullion only to top floor, mullion and transom below. Eaves parapet; small gable with copings over each window, containing coat of arms. Chimney on left end gable, short finial right: copings. Porch off-centre to right, gable as over windows, diagonally-set corner buttresses, doorway up 2 steps, 4-centred arch with hoodmould. On right a gable set back, 2 storey: panelled door up 4 steps with moulded edge to tread, flat stone porch on iron brackets: blocked window above. Right return of front has single-storey square bay with cellar window below. Left facade long, 2-storey with attics in right hand half: at extreme right gable return of front, top rendered as front, bottom as ashlar. 2-storey, square-bay, with French doors at base, 2-light mullioned window above, with crenellated parapet. Otherwise scattered mullion or mullion and transom windows, timber lintels where visible, 2 with hoodmoulds. One has 2 fragments of Medieval glass. Behind front 2 gables, one with bargeboards, one a chimney. Attached to left end a lower, small, 2 storey, hipped-roofed block with 2-light mullioned window at first floor. Interior: Entrance front 3 rooms long: right-hand ground floor room fielded panelling with 2 dado rails, moulded cornice, panelled beam, semi-circular cupboard with domed head. Left-hand end room C17 dust-ledge panelling and moulded plaster cornice. Bolection- moulded fireplace in room behind set-back gable on right. First floor 2 left-hand rooms have scratch moulded panelling, middle room 'H' hinges to cupboard door. Cellar below right-hand end of block, older than building above. Behind, steps up from it to door to courtyard, with steep segmental head cut out of a single stone. Square projection into courtyard behind left wing, with continuous spiral stair with solid wood treads, around mast. Rear wing of courtyard faced brick at first floor, containing nests of dovecote accessible only by ladder from yard. House very complex: front early C17, 3-storey block, rewindowed C18, present Jacobean- style front after 1836: 2 storey square bays at each end probably C17 (picture on 1836 map in house). This front enlarged into courtyard to give stairs and passages. Left-hand wing earlier. Prince Maurice reported to have used house as headquarters briefly during Civil War; two Royalist officers killed in it. (D. Verey, Gloucestershire; The Vale and Forest of Dean, 1970).

Listing NGR: SO6724013097

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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