Description

SO 51 SE COLEFORD SPARROW HILL (east side)

4/25 The Coombs

II

Former private house, now old people's home. Circa 1859 for Trotter family of Coleford. Dressed and snecked rubble stone with ashlar dressings, hipped slate roof, C20 brick stacks. Classical with French style central tower. Single range. 5 windows including corner bay at right. Various sash window heads, all with keystones, moulded stone architraves and fluted sill brackets. Bracketed stone eaves, sill band at first floor level, vertical bands at corners and marking some window bays. Projecting pedimented Tuscan porch on plinth with interior dentil cornice. 3 steps up to double doors with round-headed fanlight and flanking slit windows. Tower above porch has circular window at attic level with architrave broken by flat bands at compass points, and swept hipped roof with steep gabled dormers with circular lights on each face, and railed flat roof. Interior: hall has cantilevered stone staircase with wrought iron balustrade and swept wooden handrail. Coat of arms of Trotter family on wall. Main ground floor room to right has fine plasterwork and original white marble fireplace.

Listing NGR: SO5747311288

External Links

• Wikidata Q26481563

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)