Grigshot House
GRIGSHOT HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305508
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grigshot House
- Statutory Address:
- GRIGSHOT HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1305508
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Grigshot House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GRIGSHOT HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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:
- GRIGSHOT HOUSE, BATH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Woodchester
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84258 03040
Details
SO 8403-8503 RODBOROUGH BATH ROAD (east side)
15/100 Grigshot House
GV II
Large former mill owner's house, now house and flats. Mid C18; C19 addition; C20 internal alterations. Ashlar limestone; coursed rubble to sides and rear: ashlar and brick chimneys; stone slate and concrete plain tile roofs. Three-storey with attic and cellar; 3-storey rear addition. Front: 3 gables, 5-window fenestration all 8-pane sashes with keyed beaded architraves and bull-nosed sills; small leaded attic casements with plain beaded architraves. Central doorway with moulded architraves and keystone has C20 glazed doors. Large Regency ironwork porch with tent roof. Mullioned cellar casements. Angled screen wall to left links with Grigshot Lodge (q.v.). North end: gabled with small single-light fenestration; ashlar gable-mounted chimney with moulded cap. South end: 2 gables with rebuilt brick chimney on ashlar bases to each. Off-centre sash window fenestration to left gable, all with keyed beaded architraves. C20 single-storey flat-roofed addition is not of special interest. Rear: 3 gables to rear of main range with parallel 3-storey range to left built into bank with 3-window fenestration, 12-pane sashes to middle floor, 6-pane above. C20 altered addition to right. Interior: hall altered in C20 with removal of open well staircase. One good panelled room is intact, doorways having eared architraves and 8-panel egg and dart enriched doors. Fireplace has fretwork frieze with central pedimented panel. Modillion ceiling cornice. All mouldings have egg and dart and bead and reel enrichment. In the late C18 and early C19 was home of owner of Woodchester Mill. Obadiah Paul entertained George III to breakfast here in 1788, probably in the elaborately panelled room. Forms part of group with Grigshot Lodge and Grigshot Cottages (q.v.). (N.M. Herbert, 'Rodborough' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 218-234)
Listing NGR: SO8425803040
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131975
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 218-234
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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