THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS

THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, MILLERS GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1271712
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, MILLERS GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1271712
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, MILLERS GREEN

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:: THE DEANERY AND ATTACHED FORECOURT WALLS AND RAILINGS, 1, MILLERS GREEN

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 83037 18882

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW MILLER'S GREEN 844-1/8/203 (West side) 23/01/52 No.1 The Deanery and attached forecourt walls and railings

GV II*

House. Built between 1731 and 1741 and leased to Peter Haynes, gentleman; internal alterations c1810 and c1938. Since 1938 the Deanery, but formerly the cathedral organist's house. Red brick with stone details, slate roof, brick stacks. A double-depth block with entrance forecourt. EXTERIOR: three storeys, basement and attic; symmetrical front of five bays, on the ground floor the central doorway, approached by flight of stone steps, in stone doorcase with moulded architraves and pediment. In bays on each side and on the upper floors sashes with original glazing bars (4x3 panes) in openings with rubbed brick flat arches. At the rear a central, large, semicircular arched window to the stair well with glazing bars, and other sashes with glazing bars; first-floor windows open onto early C19 cast-iron balconies on brackets. INTERIOR: central entrance hall with fielded panels above fielded panel dado and divided by a transverse, moulded basket arch, with open well staircase to first floor at rear; the staircase with column newels, three column-on-vase newels to each tread, and open string with richly carved tread-end brackets; the room to front on left is lined with excellent early C18 panelling installed by Dean Castley-White, c1935, with chimney-piece framed by full height Doric pilasters and entablature, the fireplace in moulded frame, with central patera in the head carved with a swag and a surround of C18 Delft tiles, above a looking glass in an eared architrave frame; in front room to right early C17 square panelling with two C18 fielded panels above fireplace; in room to rear on right an early C19 fireplace surround and moulded cornice. On the first floor the plaster ceiling above the stair well has a central moulded roundel of foliage in relief, in the cross gallery fielded panelling and modillion cornice, panelled double doors to service stairs with fanlight in basket arch, the large room to rear on right refitted in early C19 with chimney piece, window joinery and moulded cornice, in both front rooms with C18 panelling above chimney pieces; in the attic reused C17 panelling. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Entrance forecourt has brick piers at the

outer corners with moulded stone caps and on the axis of the entrance a pair of wrought-iron gates with overthrow between brick piers, each gate pier surmounted by a finely carved stone urn, on each side of the gateway wrought-iron railings between the piers and on each side of the court a brick wall. Wall with pyramidal brick piers to left, attached to No.15 College Green (qv). HISTORY: House was the birth place of Robert Raikes founder of the Sunday School movement. (Eward S: No Fine but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury: 1985-: 322).

Listing NGR: SO8303718882

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Sources

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Eward, S , No Fine but a Glass of Wine Cathedral Life at Gloucester, (1985), 322

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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.