Gretton Farmhouse

GRETTON FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1305102
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:
Gretton Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
GRETTON FARMHOUSE, THE STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1305102
Date first listed:
04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:
Gretton Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
GRETTON FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GRETTON FARMHOUSE, THE STREET

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:
Gretton
National Grid Reference:
SP 00970 30291

Details

SP 03 SW WINCHCOMBE THE STREET, GRETTON (south side) 1/196 Gretton Farmhouse 4.7.60

- II*

Farmhouse. C16 and C17. Limestone ashlar, upper floors, front, rendered on timber framing, stone slate roof with coped end gables and ashlar stacks with moulded cappings and skirts. Main block has two full height gables to symmetrical front with through-passage, and deep back gabled wing, left, also C20 extension with flat roof, back right. Three storeys, 2-windowed, in gables 1:2:1 oriels on double console brackets over 1:3:1 oriels on triple console brackets and with slate roofs, all with diagonal leading; at ground floor, below an offset in the wall, with single slate coping or string course, 4-light stone chamfer mullion casements with king mullions, that to right of door deeper than to left. Centrally 6-panel door set to front of elliptical arch in stopped drip over deep panel with date 1656. Left gable includes small arched stair light, and 2-light chamfered mullion casement with stopped drip. Back gable wall has some stone slate hanging in upper level. A graffito representing a knight on a horse is carved on a stone, low right, in the main front. Interior has very fine extremely flat 4-centred Tudor arch stone fireplace with decorated spandrels, but including carefully matched poured concrete central section; to right of this blocked 2-light mullioned window; another fireplace, left, with large wood bressummer. Both sides ofcross passage with timber framed partitions, and framing in back wall. 3-light chamfered mullion window with drip now looks into new kitchen extension. A very fine survival.

Listing NGR: SP0097030291

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Legacy System number:
134104
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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