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BARNWOOD COURT

BARNWOOD COURT, 29 AND 29A, BARNWOOD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271563
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: BARNWOOD COURT
Statutory Address:: BARNWOOD COURT, 29 AND 29A, BARNWOOD AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271563
Date first listed:: 10-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:: BARNWOOD COURT
Statutory Address 1:: BARNWOOD COURT, 29 AND 29A, BARNWOOD AVENUE

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.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: BARNWOOD COURT, 29 AND 29A, BARNWOOD AVENUE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Gloucester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 85731 17759

Details

GLOUCESTER

SO81NE BARNWOOD AVENUE, Barnwood 844-1/4/439 (East side) 10/01/55 Nos.29 AND 29A Barnwood Court

GV II

Manor house, later vicarage, now house divided into two dwellings. c1600. Substantial alterations and additions c1800 for Robert Morris. Altered internally by division into two dwellings c1982. Stone rubble with dressed stone details, the later additions of brick and most of the exterior stuccoed or rough-cast; gabled and hipped slate roofs; C17 stone stack. Parallel adjoining ranges with end-gabled wing projecting on the north side at the east end: the entrance front of c1800 facing south masks a late C16 cross wing at the west end of the south range. EXTERIOR: two storeys and attics. Symmetrical entrance front, c1800, of five bays with gable-end to right and hipped end to left; an offset dressed stone, chamfered plinth; stuccoed wall face above scribed with false ashlar joints; stone quoins at both ends; central entrance doorway approached by a splayed flight of five stone steps to threshold, the bottom step flanked by stone urns on pedestals, semicircular arched doorway framed by stone doorcase of three-quarter columns with feather capitals, dosserets, and an open pediment enclosing fanlight with radiating glazing bars. Two sashes to each side of doorway and five sashes on first floor, all with glazing bars (3x4 panes) in openings with projecting stone sills. The west side of c1600 of rubble under rough-cast render; two large end gables to the roofs of the parallel ranges, the left-hand gable, reformed c1800, has projecting eaves, the right-hand gable coped in stone with a carved stone finial on the apex; a projecting chimney-stack of rubble with quoined angles against the left-hand gable-end with weathered offsets at upper level and moulded string course at the base of the ashlar flue shaft; to left of stack on the ground floor a plain sash in opening of c1800; above, in the gable, a blocked two-light stone mullioned window; to right of stack on ground and first floors irregular fenestration of sashes and casements in the gable above a three-light stone mullioned window with casements. On the north side to left a large cross gable of c1600 and to right the projecting wing with coped end gable; to left two cross mullion and transom windows on each floor with leadlight casements and in the gable a two-light stone mullioned window with leadlight casements. The east side has a projecting single storey bow to the end of the south range with French doors to terrace and single storey conservatory to left; on the first floor late C19 plain horned sashes. INTERIOR: in wall on right-hand side of central entrance hall and in same wall above on first floor (originally the east wall of the c1600 cross wing) the remains of blocked windows with hoodmoulds; room to left has details of C1800 with richly moulded plaster cornice, fireplace lined with Delft tiles framed by chimney-piece with moulded and eared frame; room to left with panelled window jambs and shutters; C19 staircase; in the attic rooms reused panelling of c1600. HISTORY: built on the site of a medieval grange which belonged to the former Benedictine Abbey of St Peter, Gloucester, and subsequently the Dean and Chapter of Gloucester Cathedral; probably incorporating some remains of stone dwarf walls and buttresses thought to have supported an earlier timber-framed building. The house was leased by Abbot Parker, the last abbot of St Peter's Abbey, to his brother Humphrey and his descendants occupied it until it was bought out by John Morris in 1782. Robert Morris was a Gloucester banker and MP for Gloucester. This building was Barnwood Vicarage from 1937 until c1975. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 97; VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 413-414).

Listing NGR: SO8573117759

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 472078
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1988), 413-414
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 97

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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.