Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage Attached
SPARROW FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE COTTAGE ATTACHED, FOWLSWICK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022904
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage Attached
- Statutory Address:
- SPARROW FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE COTTAGE ATTACHED, FOWLSWICK LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09063/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1022904
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPARROW FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE COTTAGE ATTACHED, FOWLSWICK 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:
- SPARROW FARMHOUSE AND DOVECOTE COTTAGE ATTACHED, FOWLSWICK LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87642 75072
Details
CHIPPENHAM WITHOUT FOWLSWICK LANE ST 87 NE 3/218 Sparrow Farmhouse and Dovecote Cottage attached
II
Farmhouse early and later C18, rubble stone with stone-tiled roofs. Original range one-and-a-half storeys with south end ashlar corner stack. Main east front with 2 dormer gables and casement windows under timber lintels, 3-light to right side, 2-light to left side, both floors and door to left. South end wall has flush cyma- moulded stone-mullion windows, single-light to attic, 2-light to first floor and 3-light to ground floor. To left a former barn converted in C20 with south side dormer gable and cyma-moulded stone-mullion windows. West end wall has plaque TMT. C20 stair tower in angle to rear of original range. Attached to north end of original range, 2 storey and attic later C18 range with coped north gable and end wall stack. To east front, a 3-light cyma- moulded mullion window, to north end a single-light attic window and renewed 2-light mullion window, to west side flush cyma-moulded doorcase, two 2-light cyma-moulded first floor windows and hipped dormer. A short C20 link at north west corner to 'Dovecote Cottage', dated 1714, rubble stone with Bridgewater tile roof and west end ashlar stack. One storey and attic with chamfered doorcase with datestone TMT 1714 over and two 2-light flush stopped cyma-moulded windows to south front. East end wall has 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window to attic and dove-openings over, west end wall has similar 2-light attic window, north wall has 2-light flush stopped cyma-moulded window.
Listing NGR: ST8764275072
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317310
- 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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