Description

ST 67 NE PUCKLECHURCH C.P. KING'S LANE (south side)

4/189 The Grey House
17.9.52
- II*

House. Dated CRI/1678 for Charles Ridley, gentleman, early C19 additions and C20
alterations. Limestone rubble, irregularly banded in different colours of
limestone, stone dressings and quoins, double Roman tiled roofs with central ridge
stack. L-plan with lobby entry. 2½ storeys and 5 windows, all cross windows
with hollow-chamfered mullions and transoms, leaded lights, continuous hood mould
over ground and first floor windows, central flat-roofed portico with twisted
columns, plain capitals with pendant pegs, similar engaged columns to rear,
bolection-moulded doorcase with floating cornice, parapet with 2 panels and blank
shield, small pediment and cornice; 3 symmetrical gables rising to ridge height,
each with smaller 2-light casement with hood mould, datestone below central window
with long cill, oval bull's eye in each gable, wrought iron finials, 4 central
diagonal stacks. Left return has two 2-light cellar windows, 2 cross windows at
ground and first floor as on front, hood moulds returned, blocked window in gable
and bull's eye above; to left it storey block added early C19 with canted bay for
porch, 2 single lights and 2 similar cross windows at ground floor, door with
raised fillets, small gable with blank shield, hipped roof. Right return has
central projecting slightly lower gabled wing, cross window at ground and first
floor with continuous hood mould, bull's eye in gable, door with segmental head
and first floor cross window to right; to each side, one cross window at ground
and first floor as on front, 2 similar gables with windows and finial. Single
storey kitchen wing attached to right with two 2-light windows to rear under
eaves, one with similar mullion and surround, to right a C20 replacement. Rear
has one gable to right with 2-light casement, stair turret set in angle of L-plan
with gable to south and west and 2-light casement in each gable, south elevation
of rear wing has blocked cross window at first floor and 2-light casement with
hood mould in gable above. Interior: open-well stair with closed string,
pendant finials, knobs to newels and turned balusters; front left room has fine
fireplace with figure in plaster frieze, blank shields and cornices, front left
and front right rooms have panelling with fluted pilasters in front right and fine
fireplace with cambered head; bar-stopped beams. (Sources: Hall, L. : Rural
Houses of North Avon and South Gloucestershire 1400-1720. 1983 and unpublished
survey, NMR).

Listing NGR: ST6964076590

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556842

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)