Minster Cottage

12, RUSSELL STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1023719
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1951
List Entry Name:
Minster Cottage
Statutory Address:
12, RUSSELL STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1023719
Date first listed:
04-Aug-1951
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Jun-1978
List Entry Name:
Minster Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
12, RUSSELL STREET
Statutory Address 2:
MINSTER COTTAGE, 2, MINSTER STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
12, RUSSELL STREET
Statutory Address:
MINSTER COTTAGE, 2, MINSTER STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wilton
National Grid Reference:
SU 09803 31152

Details

1. 5409 MINSTER STREET (North-West Side) No 2 (Minster Cottage) SU 0931 5/21 4.8.51.

II GV

2. Includes No 12 Russell Street (qv). Possibly C17. Refronted in C18. 2 storeys, colour-washed stucco, projecting plinth, narrow moulded cornice, parapet and coping, old tile roof. A front of 4 bays, the upper windows are 2-light casements, the ground floor tripartite glazing bar sashes. 6-panelled door in 2nd bay from the left, panelled reveals, wide plain frame with panelled pilasters planted on, double scroll moulded brackets supporting small broken cornice and open pediment hood with segmental soffit. The doorcase is flanked by narrow windows and Victorian footscrapers. The interior has been altered but retains early C19 staircase with turned rail to bottom stair and an earlier central chimney stack.

Listing NGR: SU0980331152

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
319255
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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