Court House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 March 1987. Court house, exhibition hall. 3 related planning applications.
Court House
- WRENN ID
- little-clay-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 March 1987
- Type
- Court house, exhibition hall
- Address
- Court House, High Street, Bisley-With-Lypiatt, GL6 7AA
- OS grid reference
- SO 904 059
- Coordinates
- 51.75202, -2.13949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Court House is a former court house, now serving as an exhibition hall with a flat above. It was built in 1865 for J.E. Dorington of Lypiatt Park. The structure is made of coursed and squared limestone and features a Welsh slate roof. This two-storey building is positioned forward of the main building line and is designed in the Tudor Revival style.
The front facade has three windows on the ground floor beneath a continuous string course. The central window is a three-light design, flanked by two-light windows, all topped with Tudor arched heads. There are two upper floor dormers at eaves level, each with gabled roofs and 2-light casements. A central carved panel displays the Dorington arms along with ribbon bands inscribed with 'BISLEY COURT HOUSE' and 'A.D.1865'. The gabled ends of the parapet each feature upper floor casements with mullions and transoms.
Stone steps lead to the upper floor doorway at the south end, while the north end has an off-centre Tudor arched doorway with a 2-light casement window to its left. The interior has not been inspected. This building replaced a small market hall that previously occupied the site and is partly used as a meeting room for the local Board of Health.
Local climate
Court House receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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