Bradley Court
BRADLEY COURT, BRADLEY GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1341521
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bradley Court
- Statutory Address:
- BRADLEY COURT, BRADLEY GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1341521
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bradley Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRADLEY COURT, BRADLEY GREEN
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:
- BRADLEY COURT, BRADLEY GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton-under-Edge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7456493724
Details
WOTTON UNDER EDGE
ST 79 SW BRADLEY GREEN
238/2/181 BRADLEY COURT
23-JUN-52
II*
Also Known As: BERKELEY MANOR, BRADLEY GREEN
The following item shall be upgraded to Grade II*:
Bradley Court, Bradley Green, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs
Manor House. Dated 1559 over entrance. Rendered roughcast, limestone window surrounds, coping, finials and chimney stacks, stone slate roofs. Southern entrance front with four main gables, gabled two storey central entrance porch and flanking symmetrical polygonal stair towers. Two storeys with attic, cellar to western part. Two storey addition to north of c.1800. Single storey addition to east. Fenestration is a combination of two-and three light mullioned windows, with six over six pane sash windows to the ground floor of the west side of the house and to the northern extension; Gothick ogee-headed glazing to the sash windows of the first floor northern elevation. Porch sports date stone in gable apex inscribed ANNO DNI 1559 below a ball finial. Entrance door of studded oak planks with heavy hinges and cover strips.
INTERIOR: Plan is one room deep, retaining its original screens passage lay-out, with later northern and eastern extensions. Numerous features survive in situ, including cupboards, shutters and doors. Stone-flagged cellar with barred square window openings. Two circular wooden stairs with plain circular newels, some treads replaced with boards. Fielded panelling to entrance hall, with depressed arch opening into library, the chimneypiece of which has been introduced recently; bolection doorcase to kitchen passage; Stone kitchen chimneypiece with keystone of c.1700. Music room in rear extension has a high ceiling enriched with a central rose, and cornice with guilloche and acanthus leaf ornament; limestone Rococo chimneypiece recently introduced. Rear stairs in north extension with turned columnar newels and square rails. First floor features include fielded doors, panelled rooms, a stone four-centred arched fireplace, c1700 stone chimney pieces. Continuous attic with part-exposed roof trusses.
HISTORY: Bradley Court belonged to the Berkeley family until 1611. This manor house replaced an earlier moated house some distance to the north. The house was acquired by Thomas Dawes (d.1713)in 1692 who was responsible for carrying out alterations to the house and grounds. The house was extensively conserved in 1984 by Rory Young.
LITERATURE: Robert Atkyns, 'The Ancient and Present State of Gloucestershire' (1712), 854; E.S. Lindley, 'A History of Wotton-under-Edge', 308-13; Nicholas Kingsley, 'The County Houses of Gloucestershire I: 1500-1660''(Cheltenham 1989), esp. 64-65.
Listing NGR: ST7456493724
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 128047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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