Ark Farmhouse
ARK FARMHOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146007
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ark Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ARK FARMHOUSE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08264/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1146007
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Ark Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARK FARMHOUSE
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:
- ARK FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tisbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93635 26491
Details
TISBURY WARDOUR PARK ST 92 NW (east side)
4/277 Ark Farmhouse
GV II
Farmhouse. C18. Dressed limestone to ground floor, English bond brick to first floor, Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Two-storey, 4- window front facing fish pond. Three-bay portico to left with vermiculated block rustication to pilasters and voussoirs of round arched openings to front and to sides, modillioned cornice and pediment, to right is C20 conservatory with glazed doors, first floor has oculus to left and four 2-light casements to right. Rear has round-arched doorway with vermiculated block rustication and mask keystone, double half-glazed doors, three 2-light casements to ground floor and five 2-light and one 3-light casement to first floor. Wing to left has half-glazed door and 2 and 3-light casements. Interior not accessible at time of survey (January 1986). The portico and round-arched doorway are reputed to have come from a Bath House built on the pond by Richard Woods, 1766/7. (Unpublished research of Mrs. F. Cowell, to be published in Journal of Garden History Society)
Listing NGR: ST9363526491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Garden History in Garden History, ()
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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