18, THE CLOSE
18, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023594
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 18, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address:
- 18, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023594
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 18, THE CLOSE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 18, THE CLOSE
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:
- 18, THE CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Salisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 14477 29668
Details
THE CLOSE 1. 1594 No 18 SU 1429 NW 3/43 28.2.52. II* GV
2. Originally Common Hall of the Vicars Choral, early canonical house (bequeathed 1319-20) of which these are some remains. The front part of house recased and heightened in the early C19. 3 storeys, stucco faced. Flat eaves to hipped slate roof. Unsymnmetrical front with projecting L H wing. Entrance below road level. 2 windows to upper floors. 1 window on ground floor and 6-panel door at R H with panelled reveals and doorcase of Doric pilasters simplified entablature and moulded pediment. The R H part has 1 window 3 panes wide on second floor and 4 panes wide first and ground floors. All windows have drip moulds. To rear early ruing 2 storeys tile hung with gable end old tile roof, restored, mostly C16/Cl7 but the west wall has section of original material, flint stone, rubble and diagonally set tiles. The wing has some exposed beams 2 bays of roof structure with intact windbraces and purlins, one collar.
All the listed buildings in The Close form an outstanding group.
Listing NGR: SU1447629669
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318986
- 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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