Matrons' College Farmhouse
MATRONS' COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023779
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Matrons' College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MATRONS' COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1023779
- Date first listed:
- 28-Mar-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Matrons' College Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MATRONS' COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, CASTLE 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:
- MATRONS' COLLEGE FARMHOUSE, CASTLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alderbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 19580 26118
Details
SU 12 NE ALDERBURY CASTLE LANE (east side) Whaddon 5/4 Matrons' College Farmhouse
II
Farmhouse. C18. English bond brick with stone and flint bands, tiled roof with brick stacks. T-plan with C18 extension. 2 storey with attic, 2-window. Entrance door is on left side of projecting wing of 'T'; 6-panelled door in moulded case with cornice, 16-pane sash to right and 12-pane sash to first floor. Gable-end of this wing has central projecting stack and narrow casements either side on three floors. Main range has C20 casement on ground floor to left and right of wing, with C19 casement to first floor on right. Left return has one 16-pane sash on two floors. To rear is rendered wing of late C18 with planked door and cast-iron casements. Interior: C18 newel staircase, chamfered beams with ogee stops to ground floor. Cellar below parlour. Probably a late C18 rebuild of an earlier building, endowed by Matrons' College, The Close, Salisbury which was founded 1682 by Seth Ward. (Unpublished records of R.C.H.M. (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU1958026118
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319383
- 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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