24, HOLDERS ROAD
24, HOLDERS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182548
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 24, HOLDERS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 24, HOLDERS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1182548
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 24, HOLDERS ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 24, HOLDERS 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:
- 24, HOLDERS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 16202 41726
Details
AMESBURY HOLDERS ROAD SU 1641 12/47 No 24
II Experimental smallholder's dwelling. 1919-20, for the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Colourwashed cob on flint and brick sill, plain tiled roof. Two storeys, 2 x 2 bays, the left bay extended and gabled to rear. Off-centre entrance to stair lobby, living room to left and kitchen and bathroom to rear. Reeded door and later glazed porch. Sheet glass windows with concrete lintels. Roof hipped and sprocketed, with 2 brick stacks, 5-flue stack to left and 2-flue on ridge to right. Walls are of 47cm cob, reducing in thickness on first floor, laid in approximately 45cm lifts with slate d.p.c. and tile covering string course. Suspended timber floors to front rooms. Original iron range in living room replaced and larger windows inserted in left bay. Interior partitions of brick, and reeded doors. The external wall finish is as originally planned for the initial five DSIR experimental low cost houses. (Building Research Special Report No 5 1922; Country Life 20th and 27th November 1920; Clough Williams Ellis: 'Building in Cob, Pise, and Stabilised Earth' 1922)
Listing NGR: SU1620241726
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321359
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Clough Williams, E, Building in Cob Pise and Stabilised Earth, (1922)
Country Life in 20 November, (1920)
Country Life in 27 November, (1920)
Building Research in Building Research Special Report, Vol. 5, (1922)
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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