Ivy Haven Windy Ridge

IVY HAVEN, 21, BOSCOMBE ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131087
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Ivy Haven Windy Ridge
Statutory Address:
IVY HAVEN, 21, BOSCOMBE ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1131087
Date first listed:
10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Ivy Haven Windy Ridge
Statutory Address 1:
IVY HAVEN, 21, BOSCOMBE ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
WINDY RIDGE, 20, BOSCOMBE ROAD

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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:
IVY HAVEN, 21, BOSCOMBE ROAD
Statutory Address:
WINDY RIDGE, 20, BOSCOMBE ROAD

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Amesbury
National Grid Reference:
SU 16746 40995

Details

AMESBURY BOSCOMBE ROAD SU 14 SE (north side)

6/9 No 20 (Windy Ridge) and No 21 (Ivy Haven)

II Pair of experimental smallholders' dwellings, 1919-20, by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Timber framed and weatherboarded on brick sills, tiled roofs. Bilaterally symmetrical, with recessed central section with entrances under wide eaves, and 2-bay gabled cross wings at ends. Bead moulded boarded door in propped timber porch, that to Ivy Haven altered and enclosed in later porch. Paned timber windows. Brick stack on party wall and 5-flue stacks on cross wings. Single storey wing to cross wing at rear. Walls are constructed of framed studding with elm weatherboarding, lined internally with diamond steel wire lattice to take haired plaster. Party wall of brick, but internal partitions timber framed. Suspended floors to front rooms. One of the second group of experimental buildings, erected to achieve economies using local materials and traditional construction. The only example of the experiment in timber construction to survive. (Jaggard, W.R., Experimental Cottages, A Report on the Work of the Department at Amesbury Wiltshire 1921; Country Life, 20th and 27th November 1920 (illustrated)

Listing NGR: SU1674740995

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Legacy System number:
321320
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jaggard, W R, Experimental Cottages A Report on the Work of the Department at Amesbury Wiltshire, (1921)
Country Life in 20 November, (1920)
Country Life in 27 November, (1920)

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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