Prosperous
PROSPEROUS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034015
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Prosperous
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPEROUS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1034015
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Prosperous
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPEROUS
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:
- PROSPEROUS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shalbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 33389 64519
Details
SHALBOURNE - SU 36 SW 6/156 Prosperous II House. Early and mid C19. Brick with tiled roof. Centre block 2- storey and attic, 3 bays, with gabled central porch and double glazed doors under round arch. Three-light sash and casement windows with gauged brick lintels. Centre bay raised as pediment, with large round-headed window. Dentilled eaves. Roof half-hipped and with 2 gabled dormers. Two-storey bay window added to right elevation and extensive later rear 2-storey wing. Parallel rear block of later C19 with shallow central gable of blue vitrified brick. Brick dentilled eaves. Roof hipped. Interior has some bolection moulded panelling, probably C19. The present building appears to replace a C17 brick structure on the same site, the bricks now reused as pavings. This earlier house was the house of Jethro Tull the agricultural improver, 1674 - 1740 and was called Mount Prosperous. Tull moved here c.1709 and wrote 'Horsehoing Husbandry' (1733) and other works. (References: DNB pp 1231-1233; Jnl. Royal Agric. Soc. of England, 3rd ser. 1891.)
Listing NGR: SU3338964519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310878
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Concise Dictionary of National Biography, (1939), 1231-1233
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England in 3rd Series, (1891)
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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