Grey Cot

GREY COT

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340422
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:
Grey Cot
Statutory Address:
GREY COT
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340422
Date first listed:
28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:
Grey Cot
Statutory Address 1:
GREY COT

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
GREY COT

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Chalford
National Grid Reference:
SO 89742 03009

Details

SO 8803-8903 CHALFORD CHALFORD HILL

10/24 Grey Cot

28.6.60

GV II

Formerly 2 houses, now detached house. Late C17, front rebuilt and rear wing enlarged late C18. Random rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; concrete tile roof. Two-storey with attic; rear wing forms L-plan. West front: 3-window fenestration, all 2-light chamfered mullioned leaded iron casements. Doorway to right of centre with 4-panel door and flat stone porch hood on shaped brackets. Upper floor appears in later masonry, probably late C18 enlargement. South side: front of earlier house forms wing to right; 2-light chamfered mullioned casements to ground and upper floor, single-light to attic. Large segmental arch to gable end of front range, now with 020 casement and plank door below. Two-light to attic. North end: 2-light attic casement with lead-latticing. Catslide roof to north side outshut to rear wing. Interior: a mullioned window, formerly in west end of earlier part, can be seen. Two spiral staircases adjacent to fireplaces. One piece of early glass has inscription 'Est une folie, toute ma vie - Graham', confirming the recorded early occupation by Huguenot weavers. Forms part of group with Halstead (q.v.), France Cottage (q.v.) and Nos 1 and 2, Cotswold Place (q.v.). (M.A. Rudd, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, 1937)

Listing NGR: SO8974203009

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Legacy System number:
132818
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Rudd, MA, Historical Records of Bisley with Lypiatt, (1935)

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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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