Penleigh Farmhouse
PENLEIGH FARMHOUSE, FAIRWOOD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021472
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Penleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PENLEIGH FARMHOUSE, FAIRWOOD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021472
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Penleigh Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENLEIGH FARMHOUSE, FAIRWOOD ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PENLEIGH FARMHOUSE, FAIRWOOD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dilton Marsh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85641 50894
Details
DILTON MARSH FAIRWOOD ROAD ST 85 SE (east side) 4/108 Penleigh Farmhouse 11.9.68 GV II Farmhouse. Early C17 with C18 additions and early C19 wing. English garden wall bond brick, Bridgewater tiled roof, brick stacks, C19 range Flemish bond with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Two-storey, 1-window former entrance front on south side. C17 range has 3-light cyma-mullioned casement to ground floor, 3-light T mullioned and transomed window and datestone: G H / 1716 to first floor, toothed eaves. C18 wing attached to right has 4-panelled door, 3 and 2-light casements, to right of this is C19 wing with higher roofline and French windows, 4-pane and 16-pane sashes. Rear of C17 range has 3-light C20 and 3-light C19 casements, 3- light mullioned and transoms casement to first floor, 3-light casement to attic floor. Right return has 2-light mullioned casement to ground floor, 3-light mullioned and transomed to first floor and 3-light attic casement, attached outbuildings. Interior of C17 range has blocked open fireplace, fine moulded cross beams to ground floor west room, C19 joinery. Initials on the datestone of those of George Turner who bought the Penleigh estate in 1704. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)
Listing NGR: ST8564150894
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313746
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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