Wotton House
WOTTON HOUSE, HORTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271681
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wotton House
- Statutory Address:
- WOTTON HOUSE, HORTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271681
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Wotton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WOTTON HOUSE, HORTON ROAD
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:
- WOTTON HOUSE, HORTON ROAD
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 84468 18813
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO8418NW HORTON ROAD 844-1/10/141 (West side) 23/01/52 Wotton House
II
Large house, now a nurses' home. Built for Thomas Horton in early C18 and shown in engraving by Kip dated 1712; mid C19 and C20 alterations and extensions. Brick laid in English bond with stone details, hipped slate roof with gabled dormers, tall brick stacks. C18 double-depth symmetrical block with central bow at rear, C19 canted bay added to front on left and early C20 additions at both ends. EXTERIOR: main block two storeys and attic. Symmetrical front of seven bays altered by the addition of the canted bay replacing the first and second windows from the left on the ground floor; brick offset plinth, raised brick band at first-floor level and timber crowning modillion cornice, raised and chamfered quoins at the corners. On the ground floor the entrance doorway in the central bay is framed by a shallow stone porch with two fluted Corinthian columns supporting a richly moulded entablature with dosserets at either end and in the centre and a segmental pediment above, fielded six-panel door; on ground and first floors sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in flush timber frames set in openings with rubbed brick flat-arches and projecting stone sills; dormers with double casements; C19 canted bay has stone sill band, crowning stone band and a plain sash in each facet. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO8446818813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472229
- 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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