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Latitude: 51.6946 / 51°41'40"N
Longitude: -2.5887 / 2°35'19"W
OS Eastings: 359409
OS Northings: 199701
OS Grid: ST594997
Mapcode National: GBR JQ.4KJS
Mapcode Global: VH87H.2NVS
Plus Code: 9C3VMCV6+RG
Entry Name: Brookend House, Gate Piers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 7 August 1954
Last Amended: 7 March 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1299069
English Heritage Legacy ID: 354619
ID on this website: 101299069
Location: Brookend, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, GL15
County: Gloucestershire
District: Forest of Dean
Civil Parish: Woolaston
Built-Up Area: Woolaston
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Woolaston St Andrew
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
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WOOLASTON BROOKEN
ST 59 NE
10/276 Brookend House, gate
piers and boundary wall
(formerly listed as
7.8.54 Woolaston Inn)
- II
Dwelling. Early C18. Rendered, and ashlared to front and right gable, concrete
tile roof, gable stacks and stack right of centre. L-plan, with small, low 2 storey
wing return, left. 2½ storeys, 3 + 1-windowed, 3-light casements with transoms
and brick cills, windows set lower at right hand end, and blocked opening presumed
original entrance, off-centre left. Gable return, right has 2-light C19 casement
to roof space; back slope with 3 C20 dormers. Door, opposite gate piers, 3 vertical
moulded panels over 2 flush, in a moulded stone architrave. Pair of square sands-
stone gate piers with elliptical ball finials to ogee square base and moulded
capping, moulded base: inscription IWM : 1713 on piers (refers to James and Mary
Woodroffe, died 1728); side irons only of former overthrow, C20 gates, flanking
walls c 1 metre high and flat sandstone capping, full width of site to left, and
returning to facade, right. Interior considerably modified, has 2-purlin roof,
a tight spiral stair from first floor to attic, some chamfered beams, and a vaulted
'cellar' in wing back. Built for a member of the Woodroffe family, well established
in the parish in C17 and C18, then became at one stage the Woolaston Inn, VCH
records it as such by 1800.
(VCH, Gloucestershire, Vol X)
Listing NGR: ST5940999701
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