THE GREY HOUSE

THE GREY HOUSE, KING'S LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1212709
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: THE GREY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE GREY HOUSE, KING'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1212709
Date first listed:: 17-Sep-1952
List Entry Name:: THE GREY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GREY HOUSE, KING'S 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:: THE GREY HOUSE, KING'S LANE

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pucklechurch
National Grid Reference:: ST 69640 76590

Details

ST 67 NE PUCKLECHURCH C.P. KING'S LANE (south side)

4/189 The Grey House 17.9.52 - II*

House. Dated CRI/1678 for Charles Ridley, gentleman, early C19 additions and C20 alterations. Limestone rubble, irregularly banded in different colours of limestone, stone dressings and quoins, double Roman tiled roofs with central ridge stack. L-plan with lobby entry. 2½ storeys and 5 windows, all cross windows with hollow-chamfered mullions and transoms, leaded lights, continuous hood mould over ground and first floor windows, central flat-roofed portico with twisted columns, plain capitals with pendant pegs, similar engaged columns to rear, bolection-moulded doorcase with floating cornice, parapet with 2 panels and blank shield, small pediment and cornice; 3 symmetrical gables rising to ridge height, each with smaller 2-light casement with hood mould, datestone below central window with long cill, oval bull's eye in each gable, wrought iron finials, 4 central diagonal stacks. Left return has two 2-light cellar windows, 2 cross windows at ground and first floor as on front, hood moulds returned, blocked window in gable and bull's eye above; to left it storey block added early C19 with canted bay for porch, 2 single lights and 2 similar cross windows at ground floor, door with raised fillets, small gable with blank shield, hipped roof. Right return has central projecting slightly lower gabled wing, cross window at ground and first floor with continuous hood mould, bull's eye in gable, door with segmental head and first floor cross window to right; to each side, one cross window at ground and first floor as on front, 2 similar gables with windows and finial. Single storey kitchen wing attached to right with two 2-light windows to rear under eaves, one with similar mullion and surround, to right a C20 replacement. Rear has one gable to right with 2-light casement, stair turret set in angle of L-plan with gable to south and west and 2-light casement in each gable, south elevation of rear wing has blocked cross window at first floor and 2-light casement with hood mould in gable above. Interior: open-well stair with closed string, pendant finials, knobs to newels and turned balusters; front left room has fine fireplace with figure in plaster frieze, blank shields and cornices, front left and front right rooms have panelling with fluted pilasters in front right and fine fireplace with cambered head; bar-stopped beams. (Sources: Hall, L. : Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983 and unpublished survey, NMR).

Listing NGR: ST6964076590

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hall, L, 'City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Monograph Number 6' in The Rural Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720, (1983)

Legal

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