Description

CHESTNUT HILL
1.
5227
(south-west side)
Stokes Croft
(formerly listed
under Cossack Square)
ST 8499 6/31 30.5.51
II* GV

2.
Circa 1700, perhaps incorporating portions of an earlier house. A good example
of a gabled Cotswold house. Built of rubble stone with Cotswold stone roof.
Three attic gables with small oval windows. Three storeys, 5 windows, thick
glazing bar sashes in moulded stone architraves with keystones, stone cills,
block corners and continuous dripmoulds. Doorway with moulded stone architrave
and fine shell hood on brackets, studded door with glazed panel. Fretted
lead gutter head. Original decorated lead rainwater heads. L-plan extension
with two 2-light mullion windows with common label. Two+one gables to rear,
the middle one-with an original mullion window. Basement doorway below.
The interior has a good original staircase with twisted balusters on straight
string, panel newels with ball finials, panelled dado. Hall fireplace with
bolection surround. Some panelling.

Listing NGR: ST8483699497

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538151

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Recommended Books

• 
  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House