Boundary House,Including Gatepiers and Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1952. Former rectory. 6 related planning applications.
Boundary House,Including Gatepiers and Wall
- WRENN ID
- distant-lead-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1952
- Type
- Former rectory
- Address
- Boundary House,Including Gatepiers and Wall, Charfield Road, Kingswood
- OS grid reference
- ST 746 920
- Coordinates
- 51.62634, -2.36814
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Boundary House is a former rectory, now a large private house, dating from the mid-18th century. It is constructed of rendered stone with alternating chamfered quoins, and has a moulded stone modillion cornice and a hipped roof covered in Cotswold stone slates, featuring a tall parapet with four stone panels and a central dentil pediment. Brick end stacks are present. The building is arranged as a long range with a central projecting rear bay, forming a shallow T-shape, and an additional single-bay wing to the left. It has three storeys and a basement.
The main, symmetrical front range has five bays, with a 2/1/2 window arrangement. The wide centre bay projects forward beneath the pediment, accentuated by additional quoins. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with moulded stone architraves and dentil cornices to the first and ground floors. The centre bay on the first floor features a Venetian window with moulded stone architraves and dentil cornice, as well as four Ionic pilasters and a blocked round-headed section with decorative Gothick tracery. The ground floor has a doorcase leading up three large semi-circular stone steps, flanked by 8-pane side lights. The central door features a large moulded stone segmental pediment on consoles, a moulded stone frame, six rectangular fielded panels, and a lower section in a fielded X-shape. The attic storey has small 6-pane sashes with moulded stone architraves linked directly to the cornice, with a round-headed central window. Basement windows are set below the stone offset, with plain round-headed stone architraves and keystones. A 12-pane sash with a plain stone architrave is visible on each floor of the left-hand wing. The projecting rear wing also incorporates a Venetian window on the first floor.
The interior is not accessible, but is likely to be of interest. The gatepiers are constructed of dressed stone with rusticated square piers, a moulded modillion cornice, and a figure of a dog's head on a double-stepped base, standing approximately 2 metres tall. Possible original polygonal finials, similar to those on Chestnut Park Farmhouse, may be located at the top of the stone steps behind the piers. No gates remain. The wall adjoining the property on both sides is constructed of coped rubblestone (random coursed to the left), curving back approximately 16 metres to join the house on the left, and running approximately 7 metres to the right to connect with the gatepiers of Chestnut Park Farmhouse. The wall stands approximately 1.40 metres high.
Local climate
Boundary House,Including Gatepiers and Wall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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