Alderbury House
ALDERBURY HOUSE, TUNNEL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023788
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Alderbury House
- Statutory Address:
- ALDERBURY HOUSE, TUNNEL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1023788
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Alderbury House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALDERBURY HOUSE, TUNNEL HILL
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:
- ALDERBURY HOUSE, TUNNEL HILL
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 18134 26818
Details
SU 12 NE ALDERBURY TUNNEL HILL (south side)
5/25 Alderbury House
23/3/60
GV II*
Country house. Late C18. For George Fort possibly by James Wyatt. Ashlar, with attached brick wing, Welsh slate hipped roof. 2 storey with basement and attic, 3-bay front; central bay flanked by canted bays. Central, glazed door up steps with balustrade, side and top lights with consoles and whole in round-arched panel. Either side are 2 storey canted bays with 12-pane sashes and flat arches in stone. Tripartite sash over door. Modillioned cornice and blocking course. Right return has rusticated basement with round-arched openings; central glazed door up steps with tripartite sash either side in arched panels with balustraded aprons. First floor has three sashes. Garden front to rear is 2- storey with vermiculated basement and 1:3:1 windows, side bays project slightly, central rusticated flat-arched windows with rusticated round-arched windows to sides of basement. Ground floor has three 15-pane sashes to centre and 15-pane sashes with balustraded apron in round-arched panel to sides. First floor has seven 12-pane sashes. To left of entrance front is 2-storey, 6- window brick wing with slate hipped roof, windows are sashes to front and French windows with casements to rear. Interior: much survives despite army use during war. Central entrance has fine curving stairs with wrought iron balustrade. Contemporary doors and door cases throughout; doors with central beading. Drawing room has large round-arched alcove flanked by Ionic columns, fine plaster cornice, moulded dado and marble fireplace. Dining room with double apsidal ends and curved doors, marble fireplace. Sitting room has acanthus plaster cornice and Adam style fireplace. Circular bedroom above the dining room. History: said to have been built by James Wyatt shortly after he pulled down the campanile at Salisbury Cathedral in 1789, with the reused stone, but no evidence exists to support this although the style and period are right. George Fort was a Salisbury hatter with some interests in the Salisbury Canal which was built in the area, shortly before the house, but never finished. The house stands in a landscaped park with a lake which formed part of the canal. (Unpublished records of R.C.H.M. (England), Salisbury).
Listing NGR: SU1813426818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319405
- 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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