Longwood
LONGWOOD, FREE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178713
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Longwood
- Statutory Address:
- LONGWOOD, FREE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1178713
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Longwood
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONGWOOD, FREE 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.
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:
- LONGWOOD, FREE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Winchester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishops Waltham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 55589 17734
Details
BISHOPS WALTHAM FREE STREET SU 55 17 9/4 Longwood (Formerly the Rectory.) II
House, built as the Rectory c1805. Walls of brickwork in Flemish bond, rubbed flat arches, some cambered and semi-circular arches, 1st floor band, brick eaves band with large dentils (of coupled bricks). Hipped slate roof, gabled to lower service wings. A square Regency house (with plain service wing) of two storeys, having three different formal elevations. The west (garden) elevation is symmetrical, of five windows, with a central half-circle (Diocletion) light above a cambered arch. Sashes in reveals, reaching to the floor level at the ground floor, the base of the wall marked by a continuous moulded stone step. The south (entrance) elevation has a lower wing recessed to the east side (which has been partly demolished, leaving the front wall), of 4.2. upper windows: sashes in reveals. The doorway is framed by a large semicircular brick arch with stone key and impost blocks, with a radiating fanlight, side windows and door within thin reeded pilasters, and 6 panelled door. The wing is less regular, with a plain arch doorway. The north elevation (of the main block) has a half-hexagonal bay, of three lights, to the eastern half, below a large window with cambered head and triple sash, the west side formed as two full- height recesses below cambered heads; to the east side the lower service wing has two above three sash windows. Inside, most of the original features remain, with staircase, panelled doors in architraves, and shutters.
Listing NGR: SP5571918045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 146078
- 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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