ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE

ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE, ASHTON GIFFORD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181007
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address:: ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE, ASHTON GIFFORD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1181007
Date first listed:: 11-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE, ASHTON GIFFORD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ASHTON GIFFORD HOUSE, ASHTON GIFFORD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Codford
National Grid Reference:: ST 96071 39998

Details

ST 93 NE/ ST 94 SE 4 & 7/38

CODFORD, ASHTON GIFFORD (south side), Ashton Gifford House

GV II

Country house. Late C18. Limestone ashlar front, brick returns, flat roof with ashlar stacks. Three-storey, 3- window central block breaking forward with 2-storey same-height side-bays. Distyle in antis Tuscan portico to centre with inserted double half-glazed doors and flanking tripartite sashes, inner door with 6 fielded panels, fanlights and flanking margin-pane round- arched sashes with interlaced glazing bars, ground floor of centre block rusticated. First floor has three 9-pane sashes, second floor has plat band and three 6-pane sashes, two-storey side-bays have 8-pane margin sashes and plat band. Moulded cornice to plain stone parapet with C20 pineapples. Right return has C20 flat-roofed extension and fire escape (latter removed in 2010), not of special interest and margin- pane first floor sashes. Left return has French windows, 8-pane margin sash and C20 windows. Rear 2 central bays break forward with 12-pane sashes to ground floor, 9-pane to first and 6-pane sashes to second floor, side-bays have 8-pane margin sashes to ground and first floors.

Interior: central entrance hall with oval open-well staircase with continuous handrail and cast-iron balusters. Good joinery throughout including 6-panelled doors in panelled reveals and moulded architraves, window shutters. South east drawing room has scrolled plaster ceiling margin and white marble fireplace. Other rooms with plaster ceiling friezes and marble fireplaces.

It was used as a school from the 1940’s - 80’s.

Listing NGR: ST9607139998

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Legacy System number:: 313511
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.