Chavenage House, Tetbury

Name: Chavenage House
Address: Chavenage House, Tetbury, United Kingdom

#5 among attractions in Tetbury

Historical place, Museum, History museum, Vernacular architecture

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Chavenage House, Beverston, Gloucestershire is a country house dating from the late 16th century. The house was built in 1576 and is constructed of Cotswold stone, with a Cotswold stone tiled roof. David Verey and Alan Brooks, in their Gloucestershire Pevsner, describe the house as "the ideal sixteenth-century Cotswold stone manor house". Chavenage is a Grade I listed building. ()

Built: XVI centuryCoordinates: 51°39'19"N, 2°11'11"W

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Nearby attractions include: The New Lawn, Egypt Mill, Church of St Mary the Virgin, Highgrove House.

3.7 miNW
Football, Sport venue, Entertainment
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3.2 miNW
Watermill
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1.8 miSE
Church
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2.3 miS
Garden, Park
Highgrove House, Tetbury
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2.7 miNW
Monastery
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1.8 miN
Valley, Nature, Natural attraction
Avening Valley, Cotswold Water Park
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1 miSW
Garden, Park, Forts and castles
Beverston Castle, Tetbury
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2.9 miN
Protected area
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1 miSW
Forts and castles
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3 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Forest
Kingscote and Horsley Woods, Cotswold Water Park
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3.5 miS
Park, Vernacular architecture
Westonbirt House, Cotswold Water Park
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