Red Stables

RED STABLES, BULL'S CROSS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267046
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Red Stables
Statutory Address:
RED STABLES, BULL'S CROSS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1267046
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Red Stables
Statutory Address 1:
RED STABLES, BULL'S CROSS
Statutory Address 2:
RED STABLES, YOKEHOUSE 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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
RED STABLES, BULL'S CROSS
Statutory Address:
RED STABLES, YOKEHOUSE LANE

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 87389 08689

Details

PAINSWICK YOKEHOUSE LANE SO 80 NE Bull's Cross 5/365 (south side) Red Stables GV II Barn and folly. Mid C18. Coursed and squared stone in shallow beds, dressed limestone flush quoins and other detail, corrugated asbestos cement. A lofty front wall to road, concealing barn on two levels under a lean-to roof behind. To road is screen wall to crenellated top over lunette and central quatrefoil at upper level over two filled door openings beneath fanlights and central pair diagonal plank door under fanlight. All openings with flat pilaster surrounds or platbands; impost blocks, to doorways. Return, left with circular pitching eye; right return the same, with plank door in platband surround. Back has opening approached by flight of concrete steps to barn in 7 narrow bays with an arch- braced lean-to structure to cruck-like principals; bolted members. Sometimes known as the 'hate wall', the folly is reputed to have been built to block out light from Greenhouse Court (q.v) which lies on the opposite side of the road. There was considerable ivy growth to the right-hand end of the building at the time of survey (February 1986). (See: 'The Strange Lost World of Pan's Lodge' by Dr T Mowl and Roger White, in Gloucestershire and Avon Life, November 1982).

Listing NGR: SO8738908689

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Legacy System number:
133562
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Mowl, T, White, R, Gloucestershire and Avon Life in The Strange World of Pans Lodge, (1982)

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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