Alderley House
ALDERLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340687
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Alderley House
- Statutory Address:
- ALDERLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1340687
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Alderley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALDERLEY HOUSE
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:
- ALDERLEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 76812 90765
Details
ST 79 SE
8/22
ALDERLEY,
ALDERLEY VILLAGE
Alderley House (Formerly listed as Rose Hill School)
II
Country house,1860 on rainwater heads in front,
said to be by Lewis Vulliamy. Ashlar, Cotswold stone slate roof,
stone stacks with multiple polygonal ashlar shafts with moulded
cornices. Jacobethan style. Double range U-plan block with single
storey porch forming E. 2-storeys and attic. Entrance front has
central stepped gable with pinnacles, with smaller gables flanking
and facing in on wings. Main block of 5 bays with end wings
projecting forward 2 bays, stone mullion and transom windows with
continuous dripmould on each floor. Central bay has canted bay of 5
lights with 2 additional side lights and parapet with dolphin (?)
motif and initials RBH. Projecting forward from canted bay is
single storey porch with diamond-pierced parapet and off-set angle
buttresses with pinnacles over. Double timber doors with
"strapwork" panelling. On inner face of wings, single storey
projecting bay also with diamond pierced parapet. Decorative
rainwater heads flanking porch and on each wing with date 1860 and
heron motif. Garden facade has 3 large gables, central Dutch
gable with flanking stepped gables, and 2 small gables between. 2
end bays are canted and have coat of arms on parapets; central bay
is square and projects to form continuous unit with dormer and
gable above.
Used as a school (known as Rose Hill School) from 1939, and converted back into a private residence in 2009.
Listing NGR: ST7681290765
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 132166
- 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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