Battlefields House Cold Ashton, England

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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