House and Wall to Front Garden, at Hownhall
HOUSE AND WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, AT HOWNHALL, B4216
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341899
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- House and Wall to Front Garden, at Hownhall
- Statutory Address:
- HOUSE AND WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, AT HOWNHALL, B4216
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1341899
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- House and Wall to Front Garden, at Hownhall
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOUSE AND WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, AT HOWNHALL, B4216
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:
- HOUSE AND WALL TO FRONT GARDEN, AT HOWNHALL, B4216
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Taynton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 72730 21740
Details
SO 72 SW TAYNTON B4216 (east side)
7/235 House and wall to front garden, at Hownhall 2.10.54
GV II
Farmhouse and wall to front garden; early C18. English bond brickwork, plain brick plinth, slate roof, lead hips and ridge. Five windows wide, one room deep, 2 storeys and attics: lower extension on right. Ten-panel front door, up 2 stone steps, bottom semi-circular: flat projecting timber hood with moulded edge. Two tall, 18-pane sash windows each side, moulded sills, flat rubbed-brick arches over: wide glazing bars on right only; cambered heads to cellar openings below. Plain brick string course over: first floor 5 windows as below, all narrow glazing bars. Flat, wide eaves. Two-light casement window to lean-to dormer in centre: roof hipped on left, similar dormer on left return with panelled brick chimney rising from eaves beyond in centre: roof gabled on right with plain brick chimney on ridge. Roof has 3 gables to rear, left projecting slightly. Garden wall to front house returns each end against it: square corner piers and central gateposts, rounded top to plinth to piers, moulded edge to stone capping. Gateway up 2 stone steps, gates since removed: brick nib in piers each side, scroll top, stone hinge blocks. Stone coping to walls, moulded outer edge, sweeps up to piers and house, ending in scroll. Mounting block with 5 stone steps to right of gateway. Interior: original L-hinges to front door: panelled shutters to front windows: moulded plaster cornice entrance hall and adjoining rooms, ground floor. Wreath to handrail to stairs at foot, sweeps up to landings: 3 turned balusters per tread, with panelled ends to each. Single, fielded panel to spandrel below bottom flight, soffit of flight above panelled. Dado panelling to stairs, matching handrail. Tall, semi-circular headed window to staircase. Forms group with farmbuildings, (q.v.). (D. Verey, Gloucestershire, The Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970.)
Listing NGR: SO7273021740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 125771
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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