Spoonbed Farmhouse

SPOONBED FARMHOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223628
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Spoonbed Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
SPOONBED FARMHOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1223628
Date first listed:
16-Jul-1982
List Entry Name:
Spoonbed Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
SPOONBED FARMHOUSE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
SPOONBED FARMHOUSE

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Painswick
National Grid Reference:
SO 86017 12344

Details

PAINSWICK SPOONBED SO 81 NE 2/310 Spoonbed Farmhouse 16.7.82 II Farmhouse, empty at time of survey (November 1985). Early C18, extended 1771. Limestone ashlar front, good cutstone elsewhere, stone slate roof to coped gables, 3 ashlar stacks. Single range near-symmetrical original with bay exten- sion left. Two storeys, attic, part basement, set cross ground slope; one storey tiled wing attached right. One + 3 windows; far left is door opening in chamfered surround, set to plinth; at ground floor an opening for former sash, with raised surround and keystone, then 4-light ovolo-mould stone mullioned casement and, beyond porch a 3-light recesed double chamfer casement; at first floor a square sash opening left, a 3-light ovolo-mould, 2-light plain chamfer, and 4-light ovolo mould, all casements set to stopped hood moulds. Three 3-light gabled dormers. Right return has at first floor are blocked ovolo-mould casement with hood. Back has at ground floor a 2-light recessed chamfer case- ment, then chamfered surround door opening, a 1-light ovolo-mould and a 4-light ovolo mould casement, and at first floor a 4-light and a 3-light ovolo-mould casement; all casements with hoods, except ground floor single light. A two storey extension also added. Front has steep gabled C19 porch with plank and batten door, centred to original composition. Interior has stone floors throughout ground floor and deep chamfered beams, flat segmental vault to cellar, at first floor, right one mutilated heavy moulded fire surround; collar roof, 2 butt purlins, renewed rafters. Held by William Sponebed in 1440. (St Clair Baddeley, History of Painswick, 1980 rep).

Listing NGR: SO8601712344

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
133500
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
St Claire Baddeley, W, History of Painswick, (1929)

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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