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Wallington Hall

Wallington Hall, Church Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1LN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036037
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1952
List Entry Name:: Wallington Hall
Statutory Address:: Wallington Hall, Church Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1LN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1036037
Date first listed:: 17-Apr-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Aug-1974
List Entry Name:: Wallington Hall
Statutory Address 1:: Wallington Hall, Church Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1LN

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Wallington Hall, Church Street, Bradford on Avon, BA15 1LN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bradford-on-Avon
National Grid Reference:: ST 82508 60979

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 February 2021 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

ST 8260 2/41

CHURCH STREET (sorth side) Wallington Hall

(Formerly listed as Holy Trinity Church Hall, previously listed as The Old Church House)

18.4.52.

GV II* Early C16 (founded 1500, restored 1925). Originally used as Church House for parish business. Later turned into cottages and for some years after 1715 used as school. Part of building now Masonic Temple. Roughly T-shaped in plan, rubble with ashlar quoins, high-pitched stone-tiled roofs.

Long portion is two storey and on south elevation has three windows and three doors. Transverse portion single-storey with gable. Ground floor windows in long portion are three-light leaded casements with stone mullions and four-centred heads in rectangular drip-moulds (restored). First floor windows are two-light ditto, except centre window which has four lights. A weathered string at first floor window sill level is carried round gable end of transverse portion and forms rectangular dripmould over a large three-light double-transomed window (restored) with stone mullions. In gable above is an original two-light window with stone mullions and dripmould. All doorways have four-centred heads in rectangular dripmoulds. There are three two-stage buttresses with weatherings on south side of long portion and four ditto along gable end of transverse portion, where there is also a deep weather-moulded plinth course. In the west gable end is a restored three-light stone mullioned casement on each floor and a single-light in gable above. On the ground floor is also a narrow, single-light "dole" window with bars. In the eastern wall are some blocked original windows and portions of the tracery remain.

Interior: the ground floor room in the two-storey portion has original oak-timbered ceilings with heavy rough-hewn beams and close rafters. The room above has an original open stone fireplace and moulded beams which divide ceiling into panels about 6ft square. In the room forming the transverse portion, now used as Masonic Temple and at one earlier period as a Cloth Hall, is an original oak gallery. The north window has a heavy moulded oak architrave surround and the walls are divided by pilasters capped by a stone frieze-cornice. Two Tuscan columns are preserved which came from the Town Club and originally supported a pulpit from which John Wesley preached.

All the listed buildings in Church Street the Chantry Little Chantry, Barton Orchard and the Catholic Church of St Thomas More, Market Street form a group with Nos 7 and 9 to 19 Barton Orchard, Nos 5 and 6 and 27 to 31 (consec) and wall Newtown.

Listing NGR: ST8250460978

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 312536
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.