277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183053
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
- Statutory Address:
- 277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1183053
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- 277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
- Statutory Address 1:
- 277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
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:
- 277 AND 279, ABLINGTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Figheldean
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 15824 46870
Details
FIGHELDEAN ABLINGTON SU 14 NE (north side)
2/164 Nos 277 and 279
GV II Two cottages in line. C16 and C18. Timber framed with whitewashed brick noggings. West gable rebuilt and part tile hung, east two bays probably rebuilt in C18, brick laced flint. Thatched roof. Single-storey and attics. No 277 is of 2 bays with central half bay containing stack. No 279 of one wide and one narrow bay. Door with glazed panels and thatched canopies, that to No 277 entering to main living room. Paned casement windows, but raised gabled dormer over living room of 277, and one rebuilt flush dormer. Roof half hipped. Interior: No 277 has two cruck trusses, both of base cruck form with tenons for missing upper truss. Cambered chamfered collar, and tie ends supporting wall plates. Cruck building remodelled mid C17, with new centre truss approximately lm to west of cruck frame, and new truss to west gable, straight long wind braces. All rafters throughout heavily smoke blackened. Secondary truss between two central trusses has smoke blackened wattling. Living room has blocked open fireplace with chamfered timber lintel, and chamfered spine beam with check and scoop stops, and similar beam partly exposed to front wall. End half hip formed later. "No 279 was extensively rebuilt c1964.
Listing NGR: SU1582446870
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321474
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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