Well Close House
WELL CLOSE HOUSE, 3, BELCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Well Close House
- Statutory Address:
- WELL CLOSE HOUSE, 3, BELCOMBE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036017
- Date first listed:
- 23-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Well Close House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL CLOSE HOUSE, 3, BELCOMBE ROAD
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:
- WELL CLOSE HOUSE, 3, BELCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradford-on-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8209660717
Details
1. BELCOMBE ROAD
5411 (South Side)
No 3 (Well Close House)
ST 8260 2/117
II*
2.
C18 ashlar facade to earlier house (probably C17). 3 storeys 5 windows.
Rusticated quoins and ground floor, plain band at 1st floor level, moulded
cornice and triangular pediment over whole width, with wheel window in
tympanum. 2nd floor windows casements, glazing bars, architrave surrounds.
1st floor windows sashes, glazing bars, architrave surrounds; pulvinated
friezes and alternate segmental and triangular pediments. Central pediment
(segmental) supported by enriched brackets. Windows on this floor have
moulded sills on cut stone brackets. Ground floor windows sashes, no
glazing bars, keystones, plain sills. Central square-headed doorway with
architrave surround, keystone and flat stone hood on moulded brackets.
6-panelled door. The end elevation (left-hand side) has 1 gable (partly
cut away for frontage), and some 2 and 3-light casements with moulded
stone mullions. The rear elevation shows 2 high-pitched gables with stone-tiled
roofs and square ashlar chimney stacks.
Listing NGR: ST8209660717
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312496
- 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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