Peacehouse

PEACEHOUSE, 6 AND 8, BRATTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1036271
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
List Entry Name:
Peacehouse
Statutory Address:
PEACEHOUSE, 6 AND 8, BRATTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1036271
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1950
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Mar-1978
List Entry Name:
Peacehouse
Statutory Address 1:
PEACEHOUSE, 6 AND 8, BRATTON 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.

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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:
PEACEHOUSE, 6 AND 8, BRATTON ROAD

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Westbury
National Grid Reference:
ST 87373 51089

Details

WESTBURY BRATTON ROAD 1. 5411 (South Side) Nos 6 and 8 (Peacehouse) (Formerly listed as ST 8751 SW 4/5 No 6 only) 29.12.50.

II GV

2. C15 and C16 altered. No 6: A 2 storey block on light rubble stone plinth with a spur buttress, upper part timber framed with brick infilling. Pantile roof. 2 twin casements on 1st floor, one on ground floor to right. Return front to left with ancient 3 plank double thickness nail studded door in later plain lattice wood porch; one casement window to right. No 6 was originally a small 3 bay house gable end to road, thatched. Below, on ground floor, the heavily moulded Tudor cross beams are retained on the ground floor. This was extended to form present house and join the later No 8. No 8: Now appears as a later wing to left with an 'L' plan. Built of rubble, gable end to road with alternate thick and thin coursing. Pantile roof. 2 ranges of C19 casements on left hand wing, one on ground floor of right hand wing. One ledged door on each wing with modern porches. The older origins of this house are indicated by an internal wall said to be 8 ft thick and by the now roofed over hip visible from the roof space of No 6.

Listing NGR: ST8737351089

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
313063
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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