Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages
FORMER WOMENS INSTITUTE, 25, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021544
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER WOMENS INSTITUTE, 25, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1021544
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Former Womens Institute Tabernacle Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER WOMENS INSTITUTE, 25, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- TABERNACLE COTTAGES, 1, CHURCH STREET
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:
- FORMER WOMENS INSTITUTE, 25, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- TABERNACLE COTTAGES, 1, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trowbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85547 58155
Details
CHURCH STREET 1. 5411 (North Side) No 25 (former Women's Institute) ST 8558 5/181 II GV
2. Including No 1 Tabernacle Cottages. 1871. 2 storeys symetric gabled Gothic lodge to east of gate screen to the Tabernacle. Built of dressed stone. Large 3 light 1st floor window. Including oculus to south. Through passage door with pointed arch on ground floor to right. 2 rain water pipes heads dated 18 AD 71 (?) with animal head spouts in parapet. 2 storey 3 light square bay in angle to south-west with traceried windows and trefoil panels below 1st floor. The 1st floor of the west front (No 1 Tabernacle Cottages) projects slightly on modillion string course; gabled break to right with entrance; gable with shaped kneelers to 1/2 dormer with 2 lancets to left above wide pointed relieving arch of plain stepped lancet triplet on ground floor. 2 stone octagonal shaft chimneys in concrete pantile roof.
Former Sunday School former 'Institute' to east, The Tabernacle United Reformed Church and related structures form a group with Nos 24 to 26 (consec) and 2 and 3 Tabernacle Cottages.
Listing NGR: ST8554758155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313919
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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