Showell Farmhouse
SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, A350
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022145
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Showell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, A350
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022145
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Showell Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, A350
- Statutory Address 2:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, CHIPPENHAM 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:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, A350
- Statutory Address:
- SHOWELL FARMHOUSE, CHIPPENHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lacock
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90909 70945
Details
LACOCK CHIPPENHAM ROAD, (A350) ST 97 SW 1/33 Showell Farmhouse 20.12.60 GV II
Farmhouse, c1820 with late C17 attached wing. Main range is red brick with ashlar dressings, slate low-pitched roof, coped gables and end stacks. Formal 2-storey, 3-window front with ashlar plinth, flush quoins, moulded cornice, parapet and flush window surrounds. Twenty-pane outer windows, 12-pane to first floor centre over ashlar doorcase, broad elliptical-arched surround with keystone framing full-width fanlight over 6-panel door and sidelights. Attached wing is 2-storey, rubble stone with slate roof. To left, cyma-moulded 2-light recessed mullion-and-transom window with hoodmould and 2-light window above, centre door in chamfered surround with rounded shoulders. To right is double- fronted stable section with two 2-light beaded mullion windows of C18 type and centre door to each floor. Dove openings to upper floor. Across forecourt is early C18 screen wall, originally with iron railings, now with ashlar block walls between piers to 2 gateways. Rusticated piers with gate stops, cornices and urn finials. Early C19 iron gates. Wing rear wall has chimney gable and 4-light mullion-and-transom window to right.
Listing NGR: ST9094470930
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315467
- 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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