BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299069
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1954
List Entry Name:: BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address:: BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL

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Date:: 2004-10-07
Reference:: IOE01/13139/19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299069
Date first listed:: 07-Aug-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL
Statutory Address 1:: BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL

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:: BROOKEND HOUSE, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Forest of Dean (District Authority)
Parish:: Woolaston
National Grid Reference:: ST 59409 99701

Details

WOOLASTON BROOKEN ST 59 NE 10/276 Brookend House, gate piers and boundary wall (formerly listed as 7.8.54 Woolaston Inn) - II Dwelling. Early C18. Rendered, and ashlared to front and right gable, concrete tile roof, gable stacks and stack right of centre. L-plan, with small, low 2 storey wing return, left. 2½ storeys, 3 + 1-windowed, 3-light casements with transoms and brick cills, windows set lower at right hand end, and blocked opening presumed original entrance, off-centre left. Gable return, right has 2-light C19 casement to roof space; back slope with 3 C20 dormers. Door, opposite gate piers, 3 vertical moulded panels over 2 flush, in a moulded stone architrave. Pair of square sands- stone gate piers with elliptical ball finials to ogee square base and moulded capping, moulded base: inscription IWM : 1713 on piers (refers to James and Mary Woodroffe, died 1728); side irons only of former overthrow, C20 gates, flanking walls c 1 metre high and flat sandstone capping, full width of site to left, and returning to facade, right. Interior considerably modified, has 2-purlin roof, a tight spiral stair from first floor to attic, some chamfered beams, and a vaulted 'cellar' in wing back. Built for a member of the Woodroffe family, well established in the parish in C17 and C18, then became at one stage the Woolaston Inn, VCH records it as such by 1800. (VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X)

Listing NGR: ST5940999701

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Legacy System number:: 354619
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972)

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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.