Upper Holcombe Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
UPPER HOLCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304745
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Holcombe Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address:
- UPPER HOLCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304745
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Upper Holcombe Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding
- Statutory Address 1:
- UPPER HOLCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
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:
- UPPER HOLCOMBE FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED OUTBUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Painswick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 85640 11793
Details
PAINSWICK HOLCOMBE SO 81 SE 2/133 Upper Holcombe Farmhouse and attached outbuilding GV II Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18 and C19. Good squared and coursed limestone long fronts, rubble returns, stone slate roof; outbuilding with concrete tile. Complex building with earliest part to road end having gabled back wing, an C18 ordering of the main front to south-east, and C19 extension and roof raising; gable away from road shows tower line original roof. Two storeys and attic. Entrance front has stone-slated pentice carried on 4 square stone piers with base and cap, and returned to link with outbuilding, and a full-height gabled wing to right: this has a 2-light recessed chamfer mullioned stone casement under stopped hood in gable, a similar blocked casement at first floor, and a C20 2-light casement to ground floor. To left, two small square openings above pentice, then at ground floor a 2-light recessed chamfer and a blocked opening flanking a C20 door. Gable to road has 2-light ovolo mould stone casement at first floor left, and 2 blocked openings; there are continuous moulded string courses at gable and first floor levels. The far gable has a 3-light recessed- chamfer stone mullion casement. Garden front has at ground floor a C19 three- light casement under a deep plain stone lintel, C20 glazed door and flat roofed porch, then a 3-light recessed chamfer and a 2-light recessed chamfer casement; at first floor a 3-light casement to plain head, a 3-light and 2-light recessed chamfer mullion casement; two 2-light gabled dormers; all windows with leaded glazing: At gable to road a large ashlar stack with skirt and capping, and smaller ashlar stack with capping at ridge near opposite end. Linked to main block by pentice roof, left is a small 2-storey gabled outbuilding of C19 with a gable stack, and plank door at upper level with stone approach steps at gable away from house.
Listing NGR: SO8564011793
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133317
- 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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