HUCCLECOTE COURT

HUCCLECOTE COURT, HUCCLECOTE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271689
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: HUCCLECOTE COURT
Statutory Address:: HUCCLECOTE COURT, HUCCLECOTE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271689
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Dec-1998
List Entry Name:: HUCCLECOTE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: HUCCLECOTE COURT, HUCCLECOTE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HUCCLECOTE COURT, HUCCLECOTE 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 86980 17520

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE HUCCLECOTE ROAD, Hucclecote 844-1/4/465 (South side) 10/01/55 Hucclecote Court (Formerly Listed as: BARNWOOD ROAD, Hucclecote Hucclecote Court)

II

Large house, in mid C20 hotel, now offices. c1775. For Sir William Strachan, Bt, with part of cost paid by Samuel Hayward, landowner. C20 alterations and additions, renovations for conversion to offices c1990. Brick painted white on front and stuccoed at rear, stone details, gabled and hipped slate roofs, brick stacks. A central, double-depth block, front gabled block balanced by single depth flanking wings with an extension to the east wing. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, semi-basement, and attic over central block; the front symmetrical, except for extension to left, with the gabled central block projecting slightly beyond the matching wings; a raised stone band at first-floor level on centre and wings and on the central block a raised stone band at attic-floor level; the gable of the central block originally masked by a crowning cornice, now indicated by a raised band across the gable, and a pediment now removed, the stone-framed oculus in the former tympanum remains in the apex of the gable; the gable remodelled in late C20 with plain pedestals crowned by balls added at the corners; coped parapets to the wings. A landing to the central entrance doorway is approached by a flight of steps with quarter landings on each side; in the centre of the front wall of the base of the landing a semicircular arched opening framed by the tops of flanking pilasters and a Gibbs surround to the arch, and the arch infilled by an iron grille, on each side of the opening a decorative framed stone roundel; a simple wrought-iron balustrade to steps and landing. Entrance doorway framed in a stone doorcase with moulded architraves and a with a moulded cornice and pediment on consoles at each end; C20 panelled double doors; on each side of the doorway a sash and on the first floor three shorter sashes; in the centre of the front of each wing a sash to the basement, a sash on the ground floor, and a shorter sash on the first floor, all the sashes with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. In the front of the recessed extension to the left-hand wing

on the ground floor a semicircular arched sash with Gothic glazing bars in the upper sash frame, and on the first floor a sash with glazing bars (3x4 panes), both in openings with projecting stone sills. On the rear or garden front a C20 single storey addition in the angle to left of the projecting gabled end of the central block; on the projection of the central block at first-floor level a raised stone band and in the centre of its front a single storey canted bay with parapet crowned by a moulded cornice with blocking course; a doorway at ground-floor level in the front of the bay, approached by a straight flight of stone steps, has a C20 panel door and a late C18 fanlight of elaborate gothick pattern; on each canted side of the bay a late C19 sash with a central vertical glazing bar; on the first floor of the central block two sashes, and on the first floor of each wing and on the extension to the east wing similar sash, and all with glazing bars (3x4 panes); in the gable of the central block a pair of small C19 sashes with central vertical glazing bars. INTERIOR: in the central block the front entrance hall with bracketed cornice contains elongated geometrical staircase rising to attic with open string, stick balusters and swept handrail; former saloon to rear of hall has C18 moulded doorcases, six-panel doors, moulded skirting, moulded dado rail and a marble chimney-piece with flanking pilasters carved with drops and lintel entablature with a central block sculpted with cupids playing with a lion in bas-relief; former dining room on the ground floor of wing to left has an arched alcove and panelled doors.

Listing NGR: SO8698017520

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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.