DOYNTON HOUSE

DOYNTON HOUSE, BURY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211580
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DOYNTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: DOYNTON HOUSE, BURY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1211580
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: DOYNTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: DOYNTON HOUSE, BURY LANE

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:: DOYNTON HOUSE, BURY LANE

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Doynton
National Grid Reference:: ST 71828 73782

Details

ST 77 SW 8/96

DOYNTON C.P. BURY LANE (north side) Doynton House

17.9.52

GV II House. Late C17, mid C19 porch and alterations, C20 alterations. Rubble, stone dressings and quoins, ashlar, plain tiled and slate roofs with raised coped verges and finials to gables, 9-stone diagonal stacks with cornices in centre of roof, stone slate roof to porch. All facades symmetrical except right return, 2 gables to ridge height to each elevation. 2½ storeys and 3 windows, ground floor has two 4-light casements with ovolo mullions and king mullion, high relieving arch rising from weathered string above head of windows, first floor has 2 similar 3-light casements and central 2-light casement without relieving arch, attic has similar 2-light casement in each gable with hood mould, all windows with C19 glazing, leaded lights in Gothic diamond pattern; central gabled porch in ashlar, 4-centred arched opening with foliage in spandrels, hood mould and mask stops, blank shield and pennant in gable, large side light with leaded lights left and right, 4-centred arch to inner C20 door with hood mould and blank shield. Left return as front, central studded C19 door with chamfered cambered head and relieving arch, no string courses, larger first floor central window and at apex of each gable an oval bull's eye with leaded lights. Right return has windows to left as at left return, 2-storey addition to right (formerly apple loft), ground floor right has 2-light casement with hood mould, 2 single lights of 8 panes each at first floor; 2-storey wing to right with corrugated iron roof, 4-light casement at ground floor as on front, C20 door and 4-light C20 window. Rear has two 4-light casements at ground floor as on front, central tall 2-light window lighting stair with high relieving arch, first floor has two 3-light windows as on front and central 2-light window set high with hood mould under eaves, 2-light window with hood mould in each gable; C20 flat-roofed porch to left and C20 door. To left, former attached stable block, carriage entry with cambered head, blocked, with C20 window inserted, small window to left, oval pitching eye above, 2 windows at ground floor and one at first, all C20, wing to left with oval pitching eye and door. Interior: front right room has stone fireplace with bolection-moulded surround and overmantel, good C19 hobgrate with Perpendicular tracery; rear right room has similar fireplace and carved spice cupboard with cock's head hinges and elaborate latch; C19 straight stone stair to rear with wreathed handrail and decorative cast iron balusters. (Sources: Verey, D. : Buildings of England Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST7182873782

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Legacy System number:: 396079
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.