Gothic Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
GOTHIC COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, 257 AND 259, STROUD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271788
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
- Statutory Address:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, 257 AND 259, STROUD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271788
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Gothic Cottages Numbers 1 and 2
- Statutory Address 1:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, 257 AND 259, STROUD 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:
- GOTHIC COTTAGES NUMBERS 1 AND 2, 257 AND 259, STROUD 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 83561 16622
Details
GLOUCESTER
SO81NW STROUD ROAD 844-1/3/332 (West side) 12/03/73 Nos.257 AND 259 Gothic Cottages Nos.1 and 2
II
Formerly known as: No.257 Gothic Cottage STROUD ROAD. House, now subdivided as two dwellings. C1830s with C20 addition at rear. Ashlar, fish-scale slate roof with elaborately scalloped eaves boards, steeply-pitched gables with elaborately scalloped barge boards and shaped apex finials, ashlar stack and two brick ridge stacks. Picturesque Tudor Gothic style. A parallel range with a central cross-gabled projection to front with gabled entrance porch to left and a hipped wing to rear. EXTERIOR: one storey and attic; the front gabled projection has large four-light stone mullioned casement window with an upper transom and an eared hoodmould above; porch to left has coped gable with kneelers and arched entrance doorway with C20 vertical boarded door; above the porch a cross-gable; within the central gable a two-light casement with a central stone mullion and in the gable to left a single-light casement; to right a tall, projecting, ashlar stack with side offsets and corbelled cap; the gabled ends of the range are identical, each with a central slightly projecting bay capped by a cornice below a stone roof; within each end-gable a two-light stone mullioned casement with a central stone mullion; all the casements have C20 glazing. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SO8356116622
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 472547
- 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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