HOLLIS HOUSE

HOLLIS HOUSE, 21, MAY LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220690
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: HOLLIS HOUSE
Statutory Address:: HOLLIS HOUSE, 21, MAY LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1220690
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1983
List Entry Name:: HOLLIS HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: HOLLIS HOUSE, 21, MAY 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:: HOLLIS HOUSE, 21, MAY LANE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Dursley
National Grid Reference:: ST 75392 98066

Details

DURSLEY MAY LANE ST 7598 (east side) 5/45 No 21 (Hollis House) 18.3.83 II

Former detached house, now offices. c1840. Flemish bond red brick to front; coursed limestone rubble to ends and rear; brick chimneys; stone slate roof. Three-storey with 2-storey projection on east end. Front: 2-window fenestration, all with keyed stone wedge lintels with segmental-arched intrados. Tripartite plate glass sashes to ground floor; C19 casements to middle and upper floors. Central doorway with C20 brick enclosed single-storey porch. Attached lean-to projects forward to left. Ridge-mounted gable end chimney stacks. West end: scattered segmental-arched casements; small leaded attic casement with timber lintel. East end: off-centre hipped-roofed projection. Rear: scattered segmental-arched casements. Flue brickwork exposed in wall running up to 2 eaves-mounted chimneys, that to left now removed. Interior not inspected. Was first home of the Dursley Agricultural and Commercial Grammar School founded by Canon George Madan, vicar of Cam, and Sir George Provost, vicar of Stinchcombe. Forms important architectural stop at bend in street. (A. Best et al, An Historical Survey of Dursley, 1985)

Listing NGR: ST7539298066

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Legacy System number:: 394413
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Best, A , An Historical Survey of Dursley, (1985)

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