SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS

SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS, CULVER HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340457
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:: SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS
Statutory Address:: SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS, CULVER HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340457
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 24-Mar-1988
List Entry Name:: SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS, CULVER HILL

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: SEYNCKLEY HOUSE INCLUDING COURTYARD WALLS, CULVER HILL

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Minchinhampton
National Grid Reference:: SO 84313 01912

Details

SO 8401-8501 MINCHINHAMPTON CULVER HILL (east side)

15/236 Seynckley House including courtyard walls (previously listed as St Loe's House) 28.6.60 II*

Large detached house. Late C15 or early C16 north range and courtyard walls; early C17 south range; west (linking) range built for school, 1698. 1909 alterations by Sidney Barnsley for Henry Payne. Random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; stone slate roof. Two-storey with attic ranges forming 3 sides of courtyard with high wall to east. North side: late C17 re-facing of C15/16 range with 3-window 2-light chamfered mullioned casement fenestration with linking hoodmoulds. Early C20 alteration to form 3 tall full-height windows; 2 gabled dormers, one leaded. End of late C17 west range to right with single-window fenestration, originally 2-light, doorway inserted in altered ground floor casement. East gable end of this range has open-sided bellcote with leaded ogee top, clock in small gable on courtyard side. West side: main elevation of late C17 range. Mostly 2-light mullioned casements in 6-window elevation, grouped under combining hoodmoulds, except 3-light to each floor roughly at centre. Roof hipped at north west corner, gable at south end. Four gabled dormers; 2 chimneys with moulded caps. South end: right of gable end of south range is early C17 cross-gabled wing, single-window fenestration below south-facing parapet gable, C19 3- light to ground floor, 5-light ovolo moulded upper floor casement, 3-light to attic with small blocked opening above. Chimney gable to rear of this range. C20 inserted timber cross-windows face courtyard. Courtyard wall has large pointed arched doorway at south east corner; further pointed arched doorway where wall joins gable end of north range, projecting stair turret havng coped top and small light. Interior: several original doorways in north range, 2 to stone spiral stair with ogee arched heads; pointed arched external doorway adjacent. Three-bay roof to this part, principal rafters having curved feet, originally with arched bracing, this now missing. Fine early C17 Jacobean stone fireplace in upper floor room of south range; fireplace of possibly slightly earlier date in south end of west range, this indicating the range may be a rebuilding. Late C17 dog-leg staircase with turned balusters and moulded handrails. Several simple stone fireplaces by Barnsley. One window has stained glass by Henry Payne. Owned through much of medieval period by Berkeley family, the house was greatly altered to serve as charity school in 1698. Bought by Henry Payne, the artist and stained glass designer in 1908. (Photographs of exterior in N.M.R. N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 184-207; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)

Listing NGR: SO8431301912

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 133026
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 184-207
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.