Description

ST 7693 4/39 WOTTON-UNDER-EDGE CULVERHAY 23.6.52 (south)

The Court

II*

Large detached house, one time Rectory. Early C18. Rendered rubble, stone parapet cornice, stone slate roof. Tripartite main front centre with wide classical pediment deep projecting portico, pilasters above; hipped roof with central flat in principal block, right, and single span narrower block left. Four brick stacks with moulded stone cappings. Two storey plus dormers, five, three, five windowed, all sashes with glazing bars in wide surrounds and stone bull-nosed cills; central section venetian window first floor, two sashes ground floor flanking six-panel door with decorative fanlight. Dormers with hipped roofs, two light casements retaining rectangular leaded glazing. Four-columned doric porch with responds, flat entablature. Good nineteenth century staircase and staircase hall, panelled doors in deep reveals, modillion cornice and classical detail generally some replacement but in keeping. Arched opening with fluted pilasters, left. Panelled and painted room right of entrance hall; and in study, back right. Building of at least two major campaigns; mostly of ca.1727, but extension and alteration, including main portico, about 1830. On glebe land, and known as Old Rectory until change of name.

Listing NGR: ST7593893380

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)