Gloucester Country Club
GLOUCESTER COUNTRY CLUB, MATSON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245729
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Gloucester Country Club
- Statutory Address:
- GLOUCESTER COUNTRY CLUB, MATSON LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/11870/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245729
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Dec-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Gloucester Country Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- GLOUCESTER COUNTRY CLUB, MATSON LANE
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:
- GLOUCESTER COUNTRY CLUB, MATSON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Gloucester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84889 15116
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW MATSON LANE, Matson 844-1/3/468 (East side) 23/01/52 Gloucester Country Club (Formerly Listed as: MATSON LANE, Matson Larkham Farm House)
II
Shown on OS map as Larkham Farm. Farmhouse, now country club and restaurant. c1600 with addition to front dated 1866, converted to country club with substantial additions c1974. Timber frame and dressed stone, tiled roofs, stone stacks with flues set diagonally, C19 addition of brick. Timber-framed range with stone wing, the C19 addition built into the angle of the range and the wing. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic, the timber-framed range has timber casements, the stone wing has mullioned casements with eared hoodmoulds, moulded stone cornices to chimney flues; at rear above the doorway part of the coat of arms of the Duke of Buckingham moulded in plaster. INTERIOR: tiled floors; in several rooms reused C18 panelling taken from the Church of St Katherine, Matson (not included), prior to rebuilding in C19; open fireplaces. HISTORY: The Duke of Buckingham was billeted in the farm house in 1643 while Charles I was at the former Matson House, now Selwyn School (qv), during the Siege of Gloucester by Royalist forces.
Listing NGR: SO8488915116
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472340
- 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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