Kingsdown House
KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 7, LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181608
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsdown House
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 7, LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1181608
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Kingsdown House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGSDOWN HOUSE, 7, 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, 7, 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 81743 67782
Details
ST 86 NW BOX LOWER KINGSDOWN ROAD
2/184 No 7 Kingsdown House
GV II
House, early C19 incorporating earlier building, painted ashlar front with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys to front, 3 to rear. Four-window front range with moulded cornice and parapet. Three upper 12-pane sashes and one escape door, 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes, centre door and to open segmental arches to left. Rubble stonework with 3-light mullion window within arcade. Rubbled stone building to left with coped gable and end wall stack. One bead-moulded mullion window to rear of C18 type. Main range rear has small fragment of dripmoulding at ground floor ri-ght end: Rebuilt as part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House recorded from the C18 but stated in 1815 as having been in existence for 200 years. (W.Parry Jones: The Trade in Lunacy 1972.)
Listing NGR: ST8174367782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 317048
- 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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