The Coigne And The Priests House Including Boundary Wall Running Approximately 30M To North

SO 8600-8700 MINCHINHAMPTON BUTT STREET, Minchinhampton Town (east side)

19/227 The Coigne and The Priests House including boundary wall running approximately 30m to north

GV II

Former rectory, now 2 houses; attached boundary walls. Early C19, altered and enlarged c1915. Coursed and dressed limestone; ashlar chimneys; Welsh slate roof. Large irregular 2-storey with attic block, attached walls running alongside road. Front: recessed range to left with gabled wing projecting forward to right. Three- window fenestration to left, all 12-pane sashes in plain openings except upper floor tripartite sash above projecting enclosed porch with pedimented doorway and Tuscan pilasters. Attic is early C20 addition with 3 small steeply-pitched gables, each with keyed oculus. Two-window 12-pane sashes to projecting wing, gable apparently rebuilt with bi-partite attic sash. South west side: irregular, including earlier masonry to left, roughly central steep gable with keyed oculus and upper floor Venetian window below, tripartite to ground floor. Full gable to right with projecting flat-roofed porch. Various chimneys with moulded caps. Interior not inspected. High boundary wall sweeps up at each end, now interrupted at centre with entrance to C20 house. Further length of wall runs to south west adjoining White Lion House (q.v.). Although extensively rebuilt as rectory c1915, building with wall is in important position at narrowing of east end of Market Square. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp 184- 207)

Listing NGR: SO8731300757