Beech House
BEECH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340641
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address:
- BEECH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340641
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Beech House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEECH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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:
- BEECH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- King's Stanley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 81104 03783
Details
SO 8103 KING'S STANLEY CHURCH STREET (west side)
13/11 Beech House
28.6.60
GV II
Detached house. Early C18, refronted c1770 by Anthony Keck. Flemish bond red brick, roughcast rendered on front elevation; ashlar dressings; brick chimneys; plain tile roofs. Two-storey with attic and cellars; two 2-storey rear wings. Attached small former cottage at south end and outbuildings at north end screened by high walls extending from facade. Front: 5-window 12-pane sash fenestration with segmental arches. Central doorway with large moulded flat porch hood on moulded brackets; double 3-panel doors with large fanlight. Plain band at upper floor level. Moulded stone parapet cornice Two flat-roofed attic dormers with small- paned casements. Chimney at each gable end. Rear: 2 gabled wings, right appearing to be in earlier brickwork and part of original house. Single-window fenestration to right wing: 2-light chamfered stone-mullioned cellar opening, C20 casements above with segmental-arched heads. C19 fenestration to left gable. Infill between wings has panelled door with rectangular light over and upper floor casement. Chimneys to both wings. Alternating stone quoins. Lean-to former bakery at north end. Interior is probably mostly by Keck. One ground floor room fully panelled with fluted Doric pilasters to chimneypiece. Dentil enrichment to fireplace and ceiling cornice. Adam style plaster frieze in another room. Staircase with turned pilasters and swept handrails. Was home of Anthony Keck until his death in 1797. Boundary wall with terminal piers to east (q.v.). (H. Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600- 1840, 1978; N.M. Herbert, 'King's Stanley' in V.C.H. Glos x, 1972, pp 242-257; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO8110403783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 131885
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1972), 242-257
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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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