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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17537756

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)