Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse)
PREMISES OF HOLDOWAY AND SONS (FORMER UNION WORKHOUSE), EDEN VALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180652
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse)
- Statutory Address:
- PREMISES OF HOLDOWAY AND SONS (FORMER UNION WORKHOUSE), EDEN VALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1180652
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse)
- Statutory Address 1:
- PREMISES OF HOLDOWAY AND SONS (FORMER UNION WORKHOUSE), EDEN VALE 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.
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:
- PREMISES OF HOLDOWAY AND SONS (FORMER UNION WORKHOUSE), EDEN VALE 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 86713 50840
Details
WESTBURY EDEN VALE ROAD 1. 5411 (East Side) Premises of Holdoway and Sons (Former Union Workhouse) ST 8650 5/137
II
2. Early C19 adaptation of later C18 front range. 3 storeys with 2 storey wing to right and single storey wing to left. Red brick with stone band over ground floor of main part and hipped slate roofs. Main part has 5 ranges of windows, centre 3 break forward slightly (plank shutters on 1st floor). Glazing bar windows, casements on 2nd floor, sashes to rest. Later central gabled brick porch with footstones, coped verges and flanking foot scrapers; clock in gable, segmental entrance arch with stone key and pointed side windows. 2 storey wing has 3 ranges of segmental headed glazing bar sashes with stone keys. Left hand wing has 3 ranges of windows with segmental heads (also glazing bar sashes). Main part has 5 window extension to rear, the 4th bay a very wide angled 3 storey bay repeated on both sides of extension. Dwarf reverse quadrant walls with arrowhead railings and central gates with cast iron piers. End piers stone with moulded caps.
Listing NGR: ST8671350840
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313104
- 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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