Wormcliffe House
WORMCLIFFE HOUSE, WORMCLIFF LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022816
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wormcliffe House
- Statutory Address:
- WORMCLIFFE HOUSE, WORMCLIFF LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022816
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1982
- List Entry Name:
- Wormcliffe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WORMCLIFFE HOUSE, WORMCLIFF LANE
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:
- WORMCLIFFE HOUSE, WORMCLIFF LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Box
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81110 67777
Details
ST 86 NW BOX WORMCLIFF LANE
2/224 Wormcliffe House
10 9 82
GV II
House, C17 on medieval core, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables, 2 ridge stacks. Two storeys. West front 5-window range with central C20 stone tiled cross-passage axis with, to left, dormer gable with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window and hoodmould over ground floor 3-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould, and, to right, dormer gable with 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window and hoodmould over 2-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould. Straight joint to right and dormer gable with 2-light flush bead-moulded window over projecting ashlar single storey range. Left side has one-window range of 2-light flush bead-moulded windows, hoodmould to ground floor window. North end wall has C20 three-light bead-moulded upper window and C20 bead-moulded door with hoodmould. South end wall has recessed ovolo-moulded 2-light upper window and single light below. East front has left end with ground floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded window, then straight joint and dormer gable with 2-light flush bead-moulded windows with hoolmoulds to both floors. Central stone-tiled lean-to with 2-light window and chamfered inner doorcase. Two-window range to right, 2-light bead-moulded windows above, 2-light windows with hoodmoulds below, one ovolo-moulded, one bead-moulded. Interior has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with keystone backing onto crass-passage and large timber-lintel fireplace to south. Marked on F Allen map of 1630 as Worms Cliffe. (Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 49 176 pp 534-6.)
Listing NGR: ST8111067777
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317088
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, (1869)
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, (1869), 534-6
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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