Raglan House
RAGLAN HOUSE, 56, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290869
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Raglan House
- Statutory Address:
- RAGLAN HOUSE, 56, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1290869
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Raglan House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAGLAN HOUSE, 56, LONG STREET
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:
- RAGLAN HOUSE, 56, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dursley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75806 98219
Details
DURSLEY LONG STREET ST 7598 (south side) 5/43 No 56 (Raglan House) 23.6.52 GV II*
Large town house in row, now partially offices. Early-mid C18; later C18 extension to rear wing. Limestone ashlar, now painted; rendered random rubble to rear wing; brick chimney; main roof inaccessible at time of inspection but probably lead; clay pantile to rear wing. Three-storey; 2-storey wing to rear. Front: 5- window 18-pane sash fenestration with thick glazing bars, all with moulded architraves and aprons with fielded panel. Central doorway with moulded architrave and 8-panel fielded door sheltered by projecting shell-hood on detached Doric columns. Central window above has flanking Ionic pilasters and pediment while that to upper floor has Corinthian pilasters, moulded cornice above being brought forward and supporting central fielded panel flanked by scrolls with segmental pediment over Parapet formerly balustraded but now missing, single attached baluster remaining on each side of central feature. Quoin strips at front corners interrupted by moulded string courses at floor levels. Rear: right of wing two tall 12- pane sashes to each upper floor with moulded architraves; single sash to ground floor. Plain band at floor levels. Wing: C20 casement fenestration on north-east side. Blocked windows with timber lintels on north-west side of wing. Interior has been altered but retains some original panelling. Original staircase survives complete with barleysugar balusters and scroll brackets to open strings. House was home of Mikael Pedersen, the Dursley bicycle designer between 1897 and 1918, The most important town house in Long Street and similar, although larger, to No 11 Woodmancote (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST7580698219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 394410
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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