39 AND 40, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021578
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: 39 AND 40, FORE STREET
Statutory Address:: 39 AND 40, FORE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1021578
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1976
List Entry Name:: 39 AND 40, FORE STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 39 AND 40, FORE STREET

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:: 39 AND 40, FORE 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 85667 57958

Details

FORE STREET 1. 5411 (North East Side) Nos 39 and 40 ST 8557 7/250 II GV

2. 1854-55 early Renaissance Italianate. 2 storey Bath stone, dressed and coursed. Parapet ramped up to sides and centre. Billet moulding over ground floor; plain moulding with grotesques to sides (an atlant end a lion of sorts) and another off centre right. Bulge in centre for (lost) flagstaff. Arcade of 4 openings to ground floor with drip moulds and dying mouldings to arches. No 39 retains carved capitals to octagonal piers; piers of No 40 replaced by RSJ to both arches (now glazed). 2 pairs of arch headed windows on 1st floor, also with drip moulds; cable moulding, coupled central colonettes with stiff leaf caps, piers to sides and mask cill brackets on both pairs.

Nos 37 to 44 (consec), No 38A and Nos 46 to 48 (consec) form a group with No 13 Church Walk. No 43 is of local interest.

Listing NGR: ST8566757958

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Legacy System number:: 313991
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.