Kingsdown House
KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 1 AND 2, LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181591
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsdown House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 1 AND 2, LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
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- Date:
- 2002-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/08162/26
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181591
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsdown House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 1 AND 2, LOWER KINGSDOWN 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:
- KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 1 AND 2, LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Box
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 81724 67783
Details
ST 86 NW BOX LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
2/181 Nos 1 and 2 Kingsdown House (formerly listed as Kingsdown House
20 12 60
GV II
House, former lunatic asylum, early C18 and C19, ashlar with slate roofs. No 1 is early C18 with coped gables and end wall stacks. Three-storey, 3-window formal front. with channelled angle pilasters, moulded string courses and cornice breaking forward at pilasters, parapet and corner urns. Segmental headed 12-pane sashes in raised bead-moulded surrounds with keystones, those to ground and first floor with cornices over keystones where string course breaks forward. Central raised moulded segmental headed doorcase set in early C19 ashlar Corinthian columned porch. Over centre parapet, segmental pedimented clock gable with channelled pilasters and ball finial, probably C19. To each side, 2-storey, one window range wings with early C19 unmoulded 12-pane sashes above, door below to right and window below to left in early C18 raised moulded surround. Centre rear projection with hipped roof, hipped dormer and 2-storey, 2-window range, upper bead-moulded flush surrounds to windows. No 2, to right of No 1, is C19 ashlar 2-storey, 3-window range with moulded string course, moulded cornice and parapet. Plate glass sashes. Kingsdown House was fi private asylum certainly from the C18, but in evidence to a parliamentary select committee of 1815-16 it was stated to have been in existence for 200 years. (W.Parry Jones. The Trade in Lunacy 1972) -
Listing NGR: ST8172467783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317045
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Parry Jones, W, The Trade in Lunacy, (1972)
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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