Dragon House (Campden Bookshop and Green Dragon)

DRAGON HOUSE (CAMPDEN BOOKSHOP AND GREEN DRAGON), HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342005
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Dragon House (Campden Bookshop and Green Dragon)
Statutory Address:
DRAGON HOUSE (CAMPDEN BOOKSHOP AND GREEN DRAGON), HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1342005
Date first listed:
25-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:
Dragon House (Campden Bookshop and Green Dragon)
Statutory Address 1:
DRAGON HOUSE (CAMPDEN BOOKSHOP AND GREEN DRAGON), HIGH STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DRAGON HOUSE (CAMPDEN BOOKSHOP AND GREEN DRAGON), HIGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Gloucestershire
District:
Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:
Chipping Campden
National Grid Reference:
SP 15154 39198

Details

1. 5224 HIGH STREET (north-west side) Dragon House (Campden Bookshop and Green Dragon) SP 1539 SW 9/103 25.8.60

II GV

2. Remodelled 1690. Ashlar front on chamfered plinth. Cotswold stone roof. Two storeys and attics. Modern gabled dormers. Two windows. On first floor 4 light stone ovolo mullions, ground floor shop windows. Moulded segment-headed doorway to left of centre, Bookshop entrance to right of centre. Moulded stone cornice angled to fit very fine sundial inscribed WSS over 1690. Rear: gabled stair turret with oculus. Interior: front conceals a partial timber frame on first floor. Good late C17 fireplace on ground floor of Green Dragon.

Listing NGR: SP1515439196

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
126153
Legacy System:
LBS

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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.

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