WESTROP FARMHOUSE

WESTROP FARMHOUSE, WESTROP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023389
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: WESTROP FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address:: WESTROP FARMHOUSE, WESTROP

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Date:: 1999-09-12
Reference:: IOE01/00280/13
Rights:: © Melvyn Gigg. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1023389
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: WESTROP FARMHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WESTROP FARMHOUSE, WESTROP

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: WESTROP FARMHOUSE, WESTROP

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Highworth
National Grid Reference:: SU2005192870

Details

1. 5410 HIGHWORTH WESTROP Westrop Farmhouse SU 2092 20/360

II

2. Probably mid to late C17. Two and a half storeys, rubble with modern tile roof. Raised and moulded verges with moulded footstones. 'L' plan wing to left of 2 bays, converted C20. Two chimneys with moulded capping, the right hand one with an enormous external stack. Two gabled dormers. Three ranges of windows, centre of 2 lights, ovolo mullions and drips, relieving arches over ground floor openings. Central door now a window, its jambs carved with initials 'J.H.' and 'W.H.', obscured date stone above. The initials probably refer to members of the Hussey family; the datestone was said to bear the date 1640. Two labels over cellar openings to right (possibly a later insertion) To rear: central steep gable with moulded oculus, small gabled stair turret to right. Interior: inglenook fire-place. Ovolo moulding to beam with complex stop.

Listing NGR: SU2005192870

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Legacy System number:: 318487
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.