Brayne Court
BRAYNE COURT, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349060
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Brayne Court
- Statutory Address:
- BRAYNE COURT, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/14691/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1349060
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1955
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Brayne Court
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAYNE COURT, 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.
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:
- BRAYNE COURT, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Forest of Dean (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Littledean
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 66759 13694
Details
SO 61 SE LITTLEDEAN HIGH STREET (east side)
10/101 Brayne Court (formerly listed as The Red House) 23.9.55
II
House: C16, C17, early C19. Mainly roughly-squared red sandstone, roughly coursing: oldest wall random rubble: timber- framed porch block with wattle and daub infil; tiled roofs with scalloped bargeboards. Rambling 'L' plan, back to road, 2 storey with attics: part cellar. Entrance on garden face, 2 storey gabled porch, jettied at 1st floor, 2-panel timber-frame per floor. To left, gabled stone block, square bay with lean-to roof, 3-light hollow-chamfer oak casements with timber lintels; blocked cellar window below, small attic window above bay. To right high block, 2 windows wide, with 2 stone dormers: timber lintels to windows. Ground floor 2 mullion and transom windows, as French doors, buttresses between, with, to right a single-storey stone bay with 2-light wooden-mullion and transom window divided with wooden glazing bars into octagonal panes, coloured glass in small squares between. Beyond a 2 storey lean-to. To road high block has central gable with wide chimney; to its left a slight set back, with one first floor window only; beyond gabled extension projects slightly: blocked door at ground floor. To right of chimney a 3- light wooden mullion and transom oriel window. A lower block behind porch set back slightly: lower two-thirds wall oldest part of house: 2-light stone-mullioned window with hollow chamfer moulding; blocked door below. Further right, beyond rendered gable, a heavy ovolo-moulded door frame with boarded door. Interior: dog-leg stair with panelled newels. Room to left has C17 dust-ledge panelling, 5-panels high, scratch-mouldings to panelled door, stone fireplace with depressed ogee-head. Main room on right heavy longitudinal ovolo-moulded beam, supported by 2 plain cross beams, possibly inserted when original partition on line of bay removed. Stone fireplace, hollow-chamfer moulding with Tudor arch, deep lintel above with one row of diamond-shaped pellets. Jacobean-style C19 panelling to fireplace wall, with row of possible C16 carved panels inset. First floor, 2 reeded door surrounds, first half C19, one embellished with 2 figures carrying shields. Bolection-moulded fireplace in room with oriel window. Said to have been used as pin factory in C18.
Listing NGR: SO6675913694
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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