THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES

THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022172
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES
Statutory Address:: THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-03-05
Reference:: IOE01/03676/05
Rights:: © Mr Jeffery Bartlett. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1022172
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES
Statutory Address 1:: THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES, HIGH 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:: THE FOX TALBOT MUSEUM AND ABBEY LODGE AND ENTRANCE GATES, HIGH STREET

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lacock
National Grid Reference:: ST 91745 68405

Details

LACOCK HIGH STREET ST 9168 (north side) 4/103 The Fox-Talbot Museum and Abbey Lodge and entrance gates (formerly listed as 20.12.60 Lodge and Barn at Abbey entrance gates) GV II

Barn, C16 with house inserted at east end in early C20 and remainder converted to museum of photography 1975. Rubble stone with stone slate roof and coped gables. South side, to road, has one blocked Tudor-arched upper opening and two C19 doorways to museum. House at right end has 2-storey, 2-window range of 2-light mullion windows. North side has 2 lean-to cart entries. Two-light hollow- moulded mullion window by right cart entry. Interior of museum has fine 9½ bay roof of tie-beam trusses with king-posts and collar pieces tenoned into king-posts each side, an unusual truss form also found at Lacock Abbey (q.v.). Interior of house not inspected. Attached low screen wall with ball-finials to piers and C19 iron gates. Old photographs show considerable alteration to road front which had buttresses, 2 elliptical-arched cart-entries and applied Gothick tracery on west end wall. Said to have been built as stable by Sir W. Sharington of Lacock Abbey in mid C16.

Listing NGR: ST9175968400

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Legacy System number:: 315538
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.