Alkerton Cross House Including Front and Rear Walls and Outbuilding to Rear

ALKERTON CROSS HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDING TO REAR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268396
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Alkerton Cross House Including Front and Rear Walls and Outbuilding to Rear
Statutory Address:
ALKERTON CROSS HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDING TO REAR
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1268396
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1996
List Entry Name:
Alkerton Cross House Including Front and Rear Walls and Outbuilding to Rear
Statutory Address 1:
ALKERTON CROSS HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDING TO REAR

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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.

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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:
ALKERTON CROSS HOUSE INCLUDING FRONT AND REAR WALLS AND OUTBUILDING TO REAR

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Eastington
National Grid Reference:
SO 77449 05304

Details

SO 7705 EASTINGTON ALKERTON

1771/12/10012 Alkerton Cross House, including front
and rear walls and outbuilding to rear

II


House. Early C19 rebuilding of earlier C18 property. Built of brick with M-profile slate roof to front block and slate and pantile roofs to rear; truncated brick end stacks to front, and end stack to rear outbuilding. Front block is double-depth plan, representing the early C19 addition to front of a mid/late C18 single-depth house; outbuildings to rear. 2 storeys. 3-window front with stepped stone voussoirs over 6/6-pane sashes and blind window above early C19 decorative canopied wrought-iron porch to front of early C19 6-panel door with latticed overlight. C19 wood casements and one sma1l-panediron casement to rear. INTERIOR noted as being remarkably complete with original panelled doors, shutters and neo-classical design fireplaces; stop-chamfered beam in C18 part to rear, which has retained C18 principal rafters (tenoned purlins sawn off) and C18 plank doors with iron latches etc. SUBSIDIAR y FEATURES: chamfered stone coping to brick front yard wall; plot to rear bounded by brick wall with run of outbuildings including a rare surviving example of an early C19 back kitchen or bakehouse, with segmental arches over wood casements to exterior, plank door with original lock and simple interior with shutters to windows and C19 features including flour hoist. A good example of a small C18 property extended in the early C19, the features from this period surviving in a remarkable state of preservation.


Listing NGR: SO7744905304

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Legacy System number:
461861
Legacy System:
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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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