Kimsbury House

KIMSBURY HOUSE, STOCKLEY WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340636
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Kimsbury House
Statutory Address:
KIMSBURY HOUSE, STOCKLEY WAY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1340636
Date first listed:
30-Sept-1985
List Entry Name:
Kimsbury House
Statutory Address 1:
KIMSBURY HOUSE, STOCKLEY WAY

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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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:
KIMSBURY HOUSE, STOCKLEY WAY

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

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:
Upton St. Leonards
National Grid Reference:
SO 86491 12984

Details

SO 81 SE UPTON ST LEONARDS STOCKLEY WAY (east side)

6/210 Kimsbury House

II

Large country house. c1885; by F.S. Waller. Rock-faced coursed rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; ashlar chimmney; Welsh slate roof. Double depth central staircase plan; 2-storey with attic; 2- storey service wing to south. Stylistically a mix of Jacobean revival and Queen Anne. West front: central parapet gable breaks forward with moulded coping and finials; 2-window fenestration to lower floors either side of gable are sashes with keyed segmental arches and beaded architraves; 12-pane upper floor sashes, no glazing bars to ground floor; 2 hipped roofed attic dormers; moulded eaves and plain banding between floors; central pedimented projecting porch in Roman Doric order with rusticated inner arch to front and sides; balustraded porch parapet; 6-panel fielded door in round-arched glazed screen; wide ridge-mounted rectangular chimneys with moulded caps. Service wing to left with 3-window 12-pane sash fenestration and hipped roof; single-storey service projection converted to garage. North elevation: parapet gable to right with 2-storey canted bay window; 2-window fenestration to left with chimney between. East elevation: central part of elevation has 3- window fenestration, round-arched to ground floor with curved roof to attached conservatory; large parapet gablets to hipped roofs of flanking wing projections, each with 2-storey bay window; 2-storey service wing to left. Many rooms with classical fireplaces; stained glass hall windows. An accomplished late Victorian house of considerable landscape impact. Dominant upon ascent of Upton Hill.

Listing NGR: SO8649112984

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
131871
Legacy System:
LBS

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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