Old Timbers

OLD TIMBERS, 14, GENTLE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1036389
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Timbers
Statutory Address:
OLD TIMBERS, 14, GENTLE STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1036389
Date first listed:
01-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:
Old Timbers
Statutory Address 1:
OLD TIMBERS, 14, GENTLE STREET

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
OLD TIMBERS, 14, GENTLE STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Horningsham
National Grid Reference:
ST 82402 41481

Details

HORNINGSHAM GENTLE STREET ST 84 SW (east side) 2/130 No 14 (Old Timbers)

GV II

Detached house. Late C17 and C18. Random rubble stone, half- hipped thatched roof, brick stacks. Gable end to road, 'L'-plan. Two storey, 4-windowed; casements. Planked door with gabled canopy to right of centre, two 2-light flush cyma-mullioned casements to right, one 2-light mullioned casement and two 2-light casements to left, cellar to left has 2-light recessed cyma- mullioned casement. First floor has four 2-light cyma-mullioned casements with eyebrows; eaves probably raised mid C18. Left return has 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to ground floor, 2-light mullioned casement to first floor. Rear has blocked doorway and 1-light casement, rear wing to left has stone bull's- eye to ground floor, 2-light casements to first floor, gable of wing has planked door and small ogee window. Interior has chamfered beams, open fireplace with chamfered timber lintel.

Listing NGR: ST8240041479

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Legacy System number:
313351
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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