Kingsway House
KINGSWAY HOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023731
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsway House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSWAY HOUSE, QUEEN STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/02192/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023731
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsway House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSWAY HOUSE, QUEEN 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.
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:
- KINGSWAY HOUSE, QUEEN 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 09902 31862
Details
1. 5409 QUEEN STREET (East Side) Kingsway House SU 03 SE 1/97
II
2. Former workhouse. Early-mid C19. Cross in square plan which is quite well preserved. Main central block to west of 3 storeys with 3 storey cross-shaped wings behind and linking single storey buildings. Red brick, slate roofs. Main block has brick block eaves cornice and 3 ranges of glazing bar sash windows with brick flat arches, 1st and 2nd floor cill bands. Door moved from centre to left hand side. Cross point of wings octagonal. Set back from road on terrace which has brick retaining wall with wall buttresses, height varies with slope from 4-7 ft; in front of main block are cast-iron railings set into the wall. Typical of the cruciform type of workhouse designed by Sampson Kempthorne after the 1834 Poor Law Amendment Act. Possibly by George Gilbert Scott, Kempthorne's partner.
Listing NGR: SU0990231862
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319273
- 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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