Sezincote House
SEZINCOTE HOUSE, GL56 9AW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1341231
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sezincote House
- Statutory Address:
- SEZINCOTE HOUSE, GL56 9AW
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- Date:
- 2002-07-25
- Reference:
- IOE01/08139/29
- Rights:
- © Helmut Schulenburg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1341231
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Sezincote House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEZINCOTE HOUSE, GL56 9AW
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:
- SEZINCOTE HOUSE, GL56 9AW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sezincote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 17167 31080
Details
SP 13 SE,
4/108
SEZINCOTE,
SEZINCOTE PARK,
Sezincote House
25.08.60
GV
I
Country house. 1800-1805; by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, Thomas
Daniell and Humphry Repton for Sir Charles Cockerell. Orange
ashlar limestone, slate roof with copper dome. Mixture of Mogul
and Hindu elements of architecture. Inverted T-shaped plan with
canted 2-storey bay window/subsidiary entrance left and orangery
(q.v.) attached to rear of main body curving away left. Wall
curving away to right from opposite corner of main body to tent
room (q.v.). Main body 2 storeys. Symmetrical facade with
central 4-centred arch to full height of facade, engaged square
columns with sunken panelled decoration to either side. Engaged
octagonal corner turrets. 3:1:3:1:3-windowed; 12-pane sashes to
first floor with moulded reveals and curved hoods with engaged
pineapple-shaped finials and foliate decoration with pendant
engaged pineapple finials below sills. Reeded quarter columns
with inset and cusped shell-like hoods flank windows to either side
of central arch. Ground-floor windows; plate-glass sashes.
Central double door flanked by engaged columns with single lights
on either side. Balcony above with cast-iron railing. Central
sash window/door onto balcony flanked by 4-pane sashes. Roof of
main body: central dome with finial set back in centre of low
rectangular tower. Single stacks with moulded caps at each corner
of tower linked by cast-iron railings. Pointed-arched blind
arcading below railing. Cast-iron railing on roof feature left of
tower. Parapet at eaves decorated with arcading in reversed relief
with chaja (projecting cornice with deep brackets below). Small
octagonal and square windows and lozenge decorations in relief
between brackets. 4 open-sided minarets at corners of main body
with copper domes and finials.
INTERIOR: C18 classical style interior. Decorated cast-iron
girders support staircase representing an early example of this
type of construction in a domestic context. Subsidiary features:
decorative cast-iron railing comprising trellis of semicircles in
front of house; 2 cast-iron mounting blocks either side of entrance
matching railing; ashlar retaining wall surmounted by similar cast-iron railing with intervening ashlar piers with stepped caps and
moulded copper finials curves away from rear left corner of house
to tent room. Wall and railing about 6m in height.
(David Verey: The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds (1979); and C.
Hussey: English Country Houses: Late Georgian , 1800-1840 (1958))
Listing NGR: SP1716731080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Hussey, C, English Country Houses Late Georgian 1800 to 1840, (1958)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,
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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