18-22, HIGH STREET

18-22, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182912
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1972
List Entry Name:
18-22, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
18-22, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1182912
Date first listed:
01-Dec-1972
Date of most recent amendment:
01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
18-22, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
18-22, HIGH STREET

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
18-22, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Corsham
National Grid Reference:
ST 87204 70326

Details

CORSHAM HIGH STREET ST 8770 (east side) 5/172 Nos 18 to 22 (even) (formerly listed as Nos 20 and 22) 12.72 GV II

Two houses, now shops,early C18 and early to mid C18. No 18 is early C18, rubble stone with stone-tiled roof, coped south gable arid end-wall stacks. Projecting coped gable to street with windows in raised moulded surrounds. Attic C20 light in original surround, first floor west front and south side original thick glazing-bar 12-pane sashes with dripstones. Ground floor wholly C20. Rear east gable with leaded attic light and bead-moulded first floor light and slate-roofed wing beyond with south side moulded doorcase and dripstone. Nos 20 and 22 are early to mid C18 formal ashlar-fronted range with stone-tiled roof, coped north gable, north end stack and ridge stack at original south end. Two storeys and attic, originally 5-window range extended to 6 in matching style. Two hipped dormers. Quoins at left end with fragment of first floor band, moulded cornice and parapet. Six 12- pane sashes to first floor in architraves with moulded sills and fielded apron panels. Five original windows are evenly spaced. Ground floor of No 20 wholly C20 as on No 18. No 22 has original 8-panel door in moulded architrave with steps up flanked by low ashlar walls and C19 eighteen-pane shop window to left with thin panelled pilasters repeated each side of door, C19 fascia over- all. Rear has 3-storey elevation, rubble stone with bands and parapet. Three-window range originally of 3-2-3 light flush cyma- moulded mullion windows, surviving to second floor, centre window blank. First floor has blocked 3-light to left, paired centre window, one blank, one 15-pane and pair of 12-pane sashes to right. Ground floor left is C20, central 6-panel door with overlight and hood on brackets and C19 bay to right.

Listing NGR: ST8721670315

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Legacy System number:
315199
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.

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