Bevington and Craven House with wrought iron screen to street
Bevington, 17, Silver Street, Warminster, BA12 8PS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036246
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bevington and Craven House with wrought iron screen to street
- Statutory Address:
- Bevington, 17, Silver Street, Warminster, BA12 8PS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036246
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bevington and Craven House with wrought iron screen to street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bevington, 17, Silver Street, Warminster, BA12 8PS
- Statutory Address 2:
- Craven House, 25, Emwell Street, Warminster, BA12 8JA
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:
- Bevington, 17, Silver Street, Warminster, BA12 8PS
- Statutory Address:
- Craven House, 25, Emwell Street, Warminster, BA12 8JA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86969 45108
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 12 July 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.
ST 8645 SE
5/40
WARMINSTER
SILVER STREET (south side)
No 17 Bevington, and EMWELL STREET No 25 .Craven House, and wrought iron screen to street
(Formerly listed as No 17 (Craven House).Wrought iron screen to street, SILVER STREET)
28.4.52.
GV
II*
C18 block facing Silver Street with older building at back. The C18 front is two storey. Red brick on stone plinth with moulded coping. Projecting stone quoins. Stone string at first floor level. Stone frieze and moulded and coved cornice. Plain stone parapet with moulded coping. Hipped old tile roof. Two two storey angular bays, of equal sides, with cornice and parapet carried round at head flanking central single window on first floor over central six-panel door in stone architrave frame with triple keystone, set in surround of plain stone with moulded stone pediment. All windows glazing bar sashes with stone architraves.
Set back with garden screened from road by low stone wall and square angle and gate piers of rusticated ashlar with moulded caps and good contemporary wrought iron rails with panel standards of scroll pattern crowned with urns on small pyramid scrolls. Central gateway. Rustic piers with pineapples for moulded capping. Fine scrollwork. Panelled standards. A panel containing initials "MWM" interlaced (standing for Michael Webb, the owner in 1783).
Square plain stairs with slender decorated turned balusters, ornamented strings and curled bars. Excellent marble fireplace to ground floor left with central panel depicting Neptune and Prosepine.
Service and stable wing to left hand set back from front of main block, of coursed rubble with moulded stone eaves cornice and old tile roof. Three windows on first floor glazing bars sashes and date panel with initials M.W.A. 1772. One window and an arched door on ground floor. (Wide double doors to right hand side). C20 brick wing with tiled roof at right angles to left. An arched stair window on east front has radiating and wreathed glazing. South front C17 and early C18 two storey and attic. Rubble stone. Hipped old tile roof. Stone tile roof. Three irregular dormer casements. Irregular windows of various dates and six-panel double arched door right hand of centre.
Listing NGR: ST8696945108
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313001
- 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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