ATCOMBE COURT

ATCOMBE COURT, ATCOMBE ROAD (SOUTH END)

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340672
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:: ATCOMBE COURT
Statutory Address:: ATCOMBE COURT, ATCOMBE ROAD (SOUTH END)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1340672
Date first listed:: 28-Jun-1960
List Entry Name:: ATCOMBE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: ATCOMBE COURT, ATCOMBE ROAD (SOUTH END)

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:: ATCOMBE COURT, ATCOMBE ROAD (SOUTH END)

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Stroud (District Authority)
Parish:: Woodchester
National Grid Reference:: SO 83733 01720

Details

SO 8201-8301 WOODCHESTER ATCOMBE ROAD (south end), South Woodchester

18/200 Atcombe Court

28.6.60

GV II*

Large country house. Late C17; C18 alterations and additions; c1821 east range for Thomas Reddall Haycock; c1860 addition. Limestone ashlar; random and coursed rubble limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh and stone slate roofs. Three-storey; 2-storey east range added forming L-plan; 2-storey addition to east range. East front: main c1821 front in ashlar to left with central 2- storey bow, open to ground floor with Ionic colonnade forming porch; double 3-panel doors with rectangular decorative fanlight over. Curved Venetian window above porch with panelled pilasters and marginal lights. Two-window fenestration either side of bow, all 12-pane sashes in plain openings. Plain upper floor level band; boldly projecting parapet cornice with blocking course. Parapet mounted chimneys with moulded caps at centre of each end of east range. Addition of c1860 recessed to right with 3-window sash fenestration having marginal lights. Plain upper floor band and ridge-mounted chimney matching main east range. South front: earlier house at centre with C18 addition to left and end of east range to right. C17 house is 3-storey with mix of sash and chamfered mullioned casement fenestration. Various continuous drip moulds; indications of some blocked mullioned casements. Single-storey late C19 bay window with mullioned and transomed casements to right. C18 addition to left has single 3-light chamfered mullioned ground floor casement, 2 to upper floor and 2- light in small attic gable, all with hoodmoulds. Single upper floor 12-pane sash in end of east range. Two ridge-mounted chimneys with moulded caps. North side: 2 small attic gables to C17 and C18 range each with 2-light casements; scattered 2- and 3- light casements on various levels below. West side: large low- pitched brick gable to later C19 addition with sash fenestration. Interior: main hall with elliptical stone staircase having Regency wrought iron balustrade and wreathed handrail; oval hall sky- light. Fine plaster cornice to hall with dividing oval arch. Good opposed Regency doorcases to principal rooms. Decorative plaster cornices throughout Regency house. Staircase with barleysugar balusters in C17 house with moulded handrails and strings. Outbuildings stands to north (q.v.). (W.J. Sheils, 'Woodchester' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 294-304; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: SO8373301720

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Legacy System number:: 132075
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 294-304
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.