Charlton House

CHARLTON HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183578
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Charlton House
Statutory Address:
CHARLTON HOUSE

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1183578
Date first listed:
06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:
Charlton House
Statutory Address 1:
CHARLTON HOUSE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHARLTON HOUSE

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Donhead St. Mary
National Grid Reference:
ST9021022262

Details

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 September 2020:

DONHEAD ST. MARY

ST 92 SW

7/34

CHARLTON

(east side)

Charlton House

GV

II

Detached house. Circa 1830. Rendered, Welsh slate hipped roof, rendered brick stacks. Square house with rear service wing. Two-storey, three-window; sashes. Central eight-panelled double doors with side lights, in Tuscan porch with coupled square columns and plain frieze, 16-pane sash either side in recessed arched panels. First floor has three 16-pane sashes, roof on deep eaves. Right return, garden front has four French windows within cast-iron verandah, four 16-pane sashes to first floor. Left return has 16-pane sashes. Two storey rear service wing is ashlar with four bays of twelve-pane sashes and two-light casements or nine-pane sashes to first floor.

Interior has entrance hall with open well stairs with stick balusters and moulded and wreathed handrail, main reception rooms have six-panelled doors in moulded architraves, floral plaster ceiling margins, window shutters.

Reputed to have been built for Lord Winford, a Lord Chief Justice.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
320820
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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