Biddesden Farmhouse

BIDDESDEN FARMHOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1035996
Date first listed:
27-May-1964
List Entry Name:
Biddesden Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
BIDDESDEN FARMHOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1035996
Date first listed:
27-May-1964
List Entry Name:
Biddesden Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
BIDDESDEN FARMHOUSE, BIDDESDEN 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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BIDDESDEN FARMHOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Ludgershall
National Grid Reference:
SU 29013 50871

Details

LUDGERSHALL BIDDESDEN LANE, SU 25 SE (north side) 9/225 Biddesden Farmhouse 27.5.64 II

Farmhouse. Late C17-early C18. Flint and chalks tone faced in diaper brick. Tiled roof. Two storeys, cellar and attics. Three bays, with entrance lateral to central room. Service wing to right and outshut to rear now incorporated in later alterations. Moulded brick plinth to main house, and elaborate mid wall string. Six- panelled door in C20 part-propped porch. Tripartite 16-paned sashes with elaborately moulded gauged brick lintels, moulded key bricks and shaped soffit. Sixteen-pane sash window over door. Boxed eaves. Three hipped dormers and gable stacks. Outshut to rear under continuation of roof but rear pitch raised to accommodate 2-storey rear extension on right. Copper fire mark, early Phoenix Co., the number not read. Single storey service wing to right of flint and brick, now office.

Listing NGR: SU2901350871

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
312433
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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