Description

NORTH NIBLEY WHITEWAY
ST 79 NE
(south side)
2/136
Round House
23.6.52
- II

Former lodge, now small detached house. c1820. Possibly by G S Repton for
Edward Sheppard. Coursed rubble limestone; ashlar dressings; plain tile roof.
Circular with rectangular addition; 2-storey. Original circular lodge has 3 doorway
recesses to ground floor at 120? intervals, each with concave recessed wall and pair
of Tuscan columns supporting wall above; trefoil-headed panels to doors. Single
2-light chamfered mullioned casement over each doorway and at mid points between
doorway positions. Hollow moulded cornice with plain parapet over; conical roof.
Geometrical arrangement of lodge interrupted by addition with C20 two-light mullioned
casements and glazed doors. Regency iron canopy to ground floor on west front.
Interior not inspected. In isolated position, but located near track through woods
that made circuitous approach to The Ridge, a house now demolished in Wotton-Under-
Edge CP.

Listing NGR: ST7744696879

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505691

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)