Vatch House
VATCH HOUSE, THE VATCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223663
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Vatch House
- Statutory Address:
- VATCH HOUSE, THE VATCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223663
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Vatch House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VATCH HOUSE, THE VATCH
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.
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:
- VATCH HOUSE, THE VATCH
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 87164 06706
Details
PAINSWICK THE VATCH, Slad SO 80 NE 5/326 Vatch House II Detached house. Mainly early C19 but some earlier C17 fabric. Coursed and squared limestone to large flush quoins. Concrete tile or Welsh slate roofs. A complex accumulative ground, with an L-plan front block and two parallel back wings, the upper one with gable to road. Entry front has wings at right angles, each with large central flush gable to kneelers. Two storeys and attics, 1, 2, on 3-light stone mullioned windows in pattern of 1 over 2 over 3; to right are chamfer-mullioned, to left are moulded with cusped travery. In internal angle a later porch. Left gable with stack. Back of left wing has 2 light pointed windows with Y-tracery, including a large stair light. Far right, set back is small wing to embattled parapet. A back wing is 3 storeys, 3 windows now steel casement, but probably of the C17. A length of boundary wall to the road at the higher end of the site contains a Gothick door to pointed head, wall extends about 10 m and varies from about 3.5 m to about 2.5 m in height. Interior includes two roof trusses in heavy members with chamfered arch-like bracing; first floor has one chamfered beam to bar stop, and a transverse beam to curved bracket. Main room ground floor right includes paralled walls and compartmental ceiling. Window shutters.
Listing NGR: SO8716406706
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133520
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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