THE MYTHE

THE MYTHE, A38

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282809
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1973
List Entry Name:: THE MYTHE
Statutory Address:: THE MYTHE, A38

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1282809
Date first listed:: 27-Jul-1973
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Apr-1994
List Entry Name:: THE MYTHE
Statutory Address 1:: THE MYTHE, A38

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 MYTHE, A38

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Tewkesbury
National Grid Reference:: SO 89158 33918

Details

TEWKESBURY

SO83SE A38, The Mythe 859-1/2/382 (East side (off)) 27/07/73 The Mythe (Formerly Listed as: THE MYTHE The Mythe)

GV II

Country house. Mid C18, early C19 facade, wing, and internal alterations; a rainwater head at the back of the building has the date 1812. Ashlar front, rendered returns, English bond brickwork wing, slate roofs. A large rectangular symmetrical block with central entry and transverse stair hall. The building is set across the ground slope, with 2-storey and basement front becoming 3-storey back; long narrow wing added back left. The front is 3-windowed, 3:3:3-light stone-mullioned casements with a transom, under stopped drips, and with 4-centred heads to the lights. At ground floor are 2 canted bays with traceried lights under hipped stone roofs with stepped weathering to a brattished edge. The top parts of pointed arches to basement lights are visible below the windows. Centre is a Gothick door with side-lights in a stone porch with pent stone roof between square buttresses to nodding ogee heads, and set-back gabled pinnacles, all on 4 sandstone steps with nosings, in balustrade walls. Plinth, weathered mid-string, cornice and blocking with saddle-back coping. The blocking is raised at the centre, and carries a shield of arms surmounted by a stag's head (William Porter, who acquired the house in 1825). The right return is lined-out rendering, with a central 12-pane arched stair window flanked by 16-pane sashes at first floor and 12-pane to ground floor. To the right, in the plinth at basement level, a 2-light casement. Stone ovolo-mould cornice, blocking and coped parapet. To the right, in a low brick section, a heavily weather-worn 3-light stone mullioned casement with louvres, imported from elsewhere. The left return is in 2 sections, with a rendered wall in 2 storeys with cellar, 3-windowed; 12-pane sashes at first floor, above a part-glazed door to 3-pane transom-light on a flight of sandstone steps, and 3 sashes as above. At each level the sash to the right is painted in to a blocked recess. There is a plank door central to the basement. Cornice and blocking as the far side. To the left a 3-storey brick wing, brought forward from a small brick link, and with quadrant corner. The link has a 12-pane sash above a plank door, and the wing has a 16-pane sash to the second floor. The narrow end of the wing has 16-pane sashes at first and second floors. The return front of the wing has three 12-pane sashes above a large glazed opening to segmental head, and two 3-light casements to segmental heads. Back of the main block has 16-pane sashes. Roofs are all hipped slate behind parapets; that to main block to central valley or flat. The front block has 3 ridge stacks, and the wing a central ridge stack. INTERIOR inspected at ground floor only. Hall with flanking rooms has good flat plaster cornices, 6-panel mahogany doors in pilaster surrounds with rosettes, and C19 plank floors. Room to the left has a recessed elliptical-headed panel. Doorcase in right room has lofty flat pediment. The staircase,to the right through an elliptical arch, is an open well, with stick balustrade and wreathed mahogany handrail. The house is usually ascribed to 1812 on the evidence of the downpipe date, but this must refer to the wing and the remodelling; the exterior detail in the long sides seems more likely to be c1740-1780. (VCH: Gloucestershire: London: 1968-: 136).

Listing NGR: SO8915833918

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Legacy System number:: 376560
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1968), 136

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.