Booker's
BOOKER'S, TOWN END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340132
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Booker's
- Statutory Address:
- BOOKER'S, TOWN END
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340132
- Date first listed:
- 22-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Booker's
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOOKER'S, TOWN END
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:
- BOOKER'S, TOWN END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coberley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 95623 16164
Details
COBERLEY TOWN END SO 91 NE
5/61 Booker's
II
Former poorhouse, then 4 cottages, now one house. Mid C17 with later extension. Limestone rubble with dressed stone quoins; stone slate to the east facing roof pitch, slate at rear; stumps of two ashlar stacks both heightened in brick; one rendered stack. Rectangular plan with the gable end to the road; lean-to extension to the rear. Two storeys with 1½ storey lean-to at the rear. Three 2-light ovolo-moulded stone-mullioned casements with horizontal glazing bars and traces of red colour wash to the ground floor; 2-light fixed casements with horizontal glazing bars and dressed stone surrounds infilling former doorways. Two 4-light wooden casements with horizontal glazing bars to the first floor. Central C20 plank door with a C20 timber lintel within a C20 rubble porch. Three plank doors with early hinges and thumb latches. The far left-hand doorway is within an open-sided C20 porch; small reused trefoil-headed stone window to the right of the porch; three 2-light casements to the ground and first floors. Gable-end and axial stacks. Interior not inspected but contains an open fireplace with bressumer. The house derives its name from the fact that it was bought by John Booker when the Coberley estate was sold in 1720. (D. Alexander, The Story of Coberley)
Listing NGR: SO9562316164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 135013
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Alexander, D, The Story of Coberley, ()
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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