Description

ST 77 SW COLD ASHTON C.P. BATH ROAD (east side)

8/1 Battlefields House

G.V. II

House, now 8 flats. 1802 by Charles Harcourt Masters, with later C19 alterations
to rear and C20 alterations. Limestone ashlar, some rubble, stone dressings,
slate roofs. Picturesque asymmetrical Gothic style. Central 3-storey block
with 2-storey wing to right and polygonal 2-storey block to left. Central block
has 3 windows and central embattled porch with octagonal turrets at corners,
double doors with 2 pointed arched lights, pointed arched moulded head, cross
windows to sides with pointed arches and Y tracery in upper sections, string
course continuing moulding over door, cornice and parapet. Projecting single
storey block to left has paired window with pointed arched lights and hood mould
with angled stops, lancet with 2 quatrefoils and hood mould above. First floor
has central triple window with wider central light, hood mould and lancet to each
side; 2nd floor has central triple window, central light taller, stopped hood
mould, lancet to each side; 2 polygonal turrets rising from ground floor level
with blind lancets, embattled parapets with trefoil headed recesses in merlons;
cornice with gargoyles, embattled parapet. Wing to right has 3 windows, all
cross windows at first floor, single light in splayed reveal to left, ground floor
has one window with pointed arch, moulded architrave, hood mould with angled
stops. Polygonal block has 4-light oriel set at corner on large corbels, ground
floor left has 2 blind round-headed arches with central square window, cross
window at first floor, string course continues around base of oriel, cornice,
embattled parapet with stepped merlons. All late C20 metal framed windows.
Left return has 2 windows, varied, including 2 cross windows at first floor with
depressed 4-centred arched heads, jamb shafts with foliate capitals, carved cills
with Latin mottoes including "nemo me impune acessit"; moulded cornice, embattled
parapet, corner turret to left. Right return has 3 windows, varied, including
3-light oriel with stepped base, each light has 2 windows with 4-centred arched
heads, cornice and pierced parapet; ground floor right has pointed arched window,
hood mould with angled stops. Rear has central projecting angled bay through
3 storeys, 3 French windows with pointed arch and tracery in upper sections,
frieze with carved flowers and string, first floor has 4 cross windows with
dentilled transoms, string, 2nd floor has foliate frieze, open balcony with
central segmental-headed arch, 2 round-headed arches to each side, shafts with
foliate capitals, moulded architraves, carved spandrels and frieze, cornice,
parapet with pierced quatrefoils, weathered turret to each side. One window to
right as on left return, one window to left as on right return; C20 greenhouse to
left. Interior: large entrance hall has 2 doors with pointed segmental arches
and hollow-chamfered jamb shafts; pointed arched opening to rear with cast iron
Gothic tracery; blocked opening to each side with triple jamb shafts, stiff leaf
capitals, quatrefoil and diamond frieze. Curved open string stair to rear rising
to 2nd floor, foliate moulded string, Gothic cast iron balusters, wreathed brass
handrail; oval lantern above. (Sources: Verey, D.: Buildings of England
Gloucestershire : The Cotswolds. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST7248370574

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26579123

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