Nether Swell Manor and Gatepiers Attached to North East Corner
NETHER SWELL MANOR AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, FOSSEWAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221955
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Swell Manor and Gatepiers Attached to North East Corner
- Statutory Address:
- NETHER SWELL MANOR AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, FOSSEWAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221955
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Nether Swell Manor and Gatepiers Attached to North East Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- NETHER SWELL MANOR AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, FOSSEWAY
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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:
- NETHER SWELL MANOR AND GATEPIERS ATTACHED TO NORTH EAST CORNER, FOSSEWAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swell
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 18169 24713
Details
SWELL FOSSEWAY (OFF) SP 12 SE 6/132 Nether Swell Manor and gatepiers attached - to north east corner
GV II
Country house. 1903. 1906 and 1909 by E Guy Dawber for Sir John Scott. Uncoursed rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, Cotswold stone roofs with coped verges; gables have cut finials. Irregular plan, free Jacobean style with irregular gables and planes to south east. 2½ storeys. Entrance front roughly 10 bays, mullion windows, transoms on ground floor, string on part of ground floor, drips over other ground floor windows. The projecting left hand block of 1909 has a 1st floor oriel. Angle bay link between left hand and centre blocks. Central block has ashlar fronted porch with Doric arch, ashlar entry on ground floor, panelled door in C17 manner and rusticated Doric to 1st floor with jewel frieze and open balustrade. 3 storey crenellated tower links to right hand block at whose furtherest extremity is a pair of large ball-capped gatepiers. The SW front forms a balanced composition with two gables over 2-storey angled bays with shapwork parapets and mullion and transom windows, slight central break with 3 diagonally-set chimney and on ground floor a large niche with open pediment and stathe; bullseye lights in gables. Smaller gables to rear; small courtyard with tile-hung and angled stair-turret in corner. Interior: Early C17 style staircase; drawing room with Louis XVI decoration including painted over-door panels; large room on ground floor of 1909 block with rich cornice plasterwork by Marcel Boulenger. Architectural Review: Vol 19, Jan 19()6).
Listing NGR: SP1816924713
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413918
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Architectural Review in January, Vol. 19, (1906)
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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