Ivy House
IVY HOUSE, 2, PRIORY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1022106
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy House
- Statutory Address:
- IVY HOUSE, 2, PRIORY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1022106
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY HOUSE, 2, PRIORY 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:
- IVY HOUSE, 2, PRIORY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87258 70637
Details
CORSHAM PRIORY STREET ST 87 70 (north side) 5/344 No. 2 (Ivy House) (formerly listed as Ivy House 20.12.60 with stables) GV II*
House, early C18, extended, ashlar-fronted with stone-tiled hipped roofs and ashlar stacks. Original square plan range to left with formal east front, and 2 additional parallel ranges added to north, one range forming left side of formal west front, both with hipped gables to east. Original range has fine 3-window Baroque front with quoin pilasters, moulded plinth, moulded coved cornice and parapet with sunk panels and ramped ends. Two-storey centrepiece breaking through cornice into parapet of lower 12-pane sash in fluted Roman Doric pilaster surround with segmental pediment and upper 12-pane segmental-headed sash in architrave with keystone set in fluted Ionic pilaster surround with ornate pediment. Side windows segmental-headed sashes in architraves with keystones, moulded sills and apron panels. Aprons under upper windows have pendants, centre pendant being keystone of lower window. To right are hipped ends of 2 parallel ranges, the first with hipped 9-pane dormer, 2 plain upper sashes, moulded band and one lower segmental- headed sash in architrave. Door to left to passage between ranges leading to elliptical-arched door with keystone and hood on brackets, hood built into side walls each side. Outer range may be early C20 rubble stone with ashlar quoins, 2-storey, 2-window east end sashes, segmental-headed to ground floor. North side stack. South side of original range, to Priory Street has quoin pilasters and cornice as on east front, 2 large chimney gables and 2-storey elevation largely of blank segmental-arched surrounds in 1-3-1 arrangement, centre being arched window to first floor and arched door below closely flanked by blank windows and plain pilasters. Ground floor centre is recessed in broad elliptical arch with moulded course stepped over but repeated within over keystones. Tall 8-panel door. North front has centre and wings composition with rendered centre and hipped ashlar wings. Very large 40-pane stair light to centre, quoin pilasters and 2-window range of 12- pane sashes to wings, ground floor right replaced by large C19 canted ashlar bay. Basement centre has ovolo-moulded 2-light mullion window. North parallel range has lower west end section projecting, south side door with hood on brackets and west end cyma-moulded mullion windows, mostly C20. Interior: fine stair hall with bead-moulded fireplace. Stair with lozenge-patterned tread ends and carved brackets under, alternating twisted and fluted balusters and moulded rail. Panelled dado with fluted pilasters.
Listing NGR: ST8725870637
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315372
- 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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