WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341742
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT
Statutory Address:: WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1341742
Date first listed:: 20-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT
Statutory Address 1:: WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WEST FACADE AT KIFTSGATE COURT

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Mickleton
National Grid Reference:: SP1702343088

Details

SP 1643-1743 MICKLETON

12/66 West Facade at Kiftsgate Court

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Facade Kiftsgate Court. Late C18. Remainder of house was built in a Cl7 style between 1887-91, and is not of listable quality. Facade built for Walwyn Graves (born 1744, died 1813). Ashlar garden facade, extending around gable end of projecting wing, left, along right wall of wing, then at right angles along rear of main body of house projecting forwards slightly at centre continuing around its right gable end. 2 storeys with piano nobile. Gable end of projecting wing left comprises single storey portico supported by 8 Ionic columns, at front, with one single and one engaged column to either side. Stone balustrade links the columns, broken for access at sides. Parapet over portico. Twin gabled, gable end behind portico with moulded eaves cornice with dentil decoration and string which continue around right wall and across facade of main body. Two, 2-light sashes with horns with moulded architraves to first floor 4 similar windows to first floor along right wall of wing. Former pedimented doorway in right wall of wing, towards gable end, comprising 6-pane, C20 door flanked by engaged Ionic columns with 6-pane sash windows to either side, flanked by Ionic pilasters. Lower part of doorway blocked. Similar doorway and door towards right, in gable end, with 2-light stone mullioned casement to left, part glazed C20 plank door far left. Windows across main facade of right wing 2:2:2 with moulded architraves splayed at bottom with flat lintels with cushion mouldings moulded windows flanking central glazed ground floor door with keystones. Continuous string, forms sill of upper windows. All windows 2-pane sashes with horns. Rusticated ground floor with pedimented, projecting central portico above. Pediment supported by 6 Ionic columns at front with single free-standing columns at either side running back to Ionic pilasters, all linked by a stone balustrade. Central first floor doorway from portico with lugged architrave and triangular pediment supported on long, thin decorated brackets over. C20 glazed door within. History: the facade, built for Walwyn Graves (died 1813) was previously attached to Middleton Manor and was moved up hill from there by Sydney Graves Hamilton who built Kiftsgate Court 1887-91 (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SP1702343088

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Legacy System number:: 126985
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.