Wells Folly
WELLS FOLLY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341118
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Folly
- Statutory Address:
- WELLS FOLLY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341118
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Wells Folly
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELLS FOLLY
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:
- WELLS FOLLY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Evenlode
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 22616 31493
Details
EVENLODE sP 23 SW 2/108 Wells Folly II Detached house. Dated 1905 on chimney stack, house designed by Guy Dawber. Thinly bedded coursed limestone with pointing raked out, stone slate roof, brick stacks, ceramic ridge tiles. Compact Cotswold type plan with gabled 2-storey poch off-centre left and broad gabled cross wing at centre, service court continuous to right with large round-headed carriage entry with original decorative double plank doors under gable. Small circular turret at right-hand corner with slit windows and casements within stone surrounds with curved pointed heads. Facade: 2 storeys and attic, irregular fenestration all 2 or 5-light untreated oak-framed casements with leaded panes. Central, moulded, round-headed opening to porch with segmental oriel above bearing carved coat of arms with dragon at centre and latin inscription UT ROSA SIC VITA below. Kneelers to gable above decorated with carved dragons. Plank door with decorative studs in round-arched head within porch. Return left; twin 2-storey gables flanking recessed verandah with large external stack at rear. Service courtyard mainly as built including square ventilation turret with hanging stone slate around base and timber louvres above, pyramidal roof with weather vane. Decorative rainwater head at rear. All gutters supported by curved brackets. Interior apparently as built. (Small Country Houses of Today P.38 (1983) Edited by Lawrence Weaver).
Listing NGR: SP2261631493
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weaver, L, Small Country Houses of Today, (1910), 38
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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