Alexander House
ALEXANDER HOUSE, HIGH STREET, CORSHAM, SN13 0HQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183086
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Alexander House
- Statutory Address:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE, HIGH STREET, CORSHAM, SN13 0HQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1183086
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Alexander House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE, HIGH STREET, CORSHAM, SN13 0HQ
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:
- ALEXANDER HOUSE, HIGH STREET, CORSHAM, SN13 0HQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST8719870382
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor amendment on 25/10/2016
ST 8770 5/204
CORSHAM
HIGH STREET (west side)
Alexander House
(Formerly listed as No 19 (Alexander House), previously listed as Alexander House)
20.12.60
GV
II*
House, early C18, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roofs and end wall stacks to main range. Formal 3-storey, 5-window tall front with channelled angle pilasters, raised plinth, moulded courses over ground and first floors, moulded cornice, all broken forward at pilasters, and top parapet with angle piers and 5 fielded panels. All windows in raised bead-moulded surrounds with keystones and fielded apron panels. Attic 4-pane windows, first floor and ground floor 8-pane windows in segmental-headed surrounds. Former centre door, now 8-pane window, has similar segmental-headed surround but with carving to keystone and spandrels and ornamented frieze under hood on carved brackets. Rendered south wall. Large 3-storey range to rear, rendered with 3 coped dormer gables. First bay has 2 superimposed long stair-lights, segmental-headed with keystones and hoodmoulds over projecting porch, 2 dormer gables beyond have 2-light flush cyma-moulded windows with hoodmoulds over first floor 3-light, single light and 3-light similar mullion windows under single hoodmould and ground floor C20 windows. Cross range at west end, rubble stone with paired south end stacks. Flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, 3-light to first floor and 4-light to ground floor on west side, altered 2-light to north end attic, all with hoodmoulds. West side has first floor door. In angle between front range and main rear wing is long early C19 block with hipped roof and very large west end first floor 24-pane window. West end of main rear wing has raised bead-moulded doorcase with hood on carved brackets and 6-panel door.
Interior: front range has original panelled shutters and rear staircase with twisted balusters and panelled dado.
Listing NGR: ST8719870382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315231
- 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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