Orangery and Gatehouse at Ashcombe House
ORANGERY AND GATEHOUSE AT ASHCOMBE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery and Gatehouse at Ashcombe House
- Statutory Address:
- ORANGERY AND GATEHOUSE AT ASHCOMBE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184004
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Orangery and Gatehouse at Ashcombe House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORANGERY AND GATEHOUSE AT ASHCOMBE HOUSE
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:
- ORANGERY AND GATEHOUSE AT ASHCOMBE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Berwick St. John
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93360 20155
Details
ST 92 SW BERWICK ST. JOHN -
5/42 Orangery and gatehouse at Ashcombe House
GV II
Orangery or stables, now studio, with attached gatehouse. Early C18. Flemish bond brick with limestone dressings, corrugated- iron hipped roof. L-plan; the truncated remains of a larger range, with the gatehouse formerly central. Single-storey, 5-bay garden front with gatehouse to left and projecting 3-bay wing to right. Round-arched gateway has Gibbs surround, dentilled pediment with oculus, chamfered rusticated quoins, to right are four round-arched openings with keystones and casements; formerly 2 windows and 2 doors, to right is arched doorway with fanlight. Return of wing to right has 2 round-arched casements and central door with fanlight, all in recessed arched panels with keystones, front of wing has Venetian window with stone pilasters, cornice and raised voussoirs to round-arched head, casements. Rear has gatehouse with similar Gibbs surround to archway. Hipped roof has brick parapet with stone coping. Interior not accessible at time of survey (March 1985), but was converted to a studio in 1930s by Cecil Beaton. The full extent of this range is illustrated in early C18 painting, in Salisbury Museum, partly demolished mid C18. (C. Beaton, Ashcombe - The Story of a Fifteen Year Lease, 1949; NMR.)
Listing NGR: ST9336020155
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320268
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Beaton, C, Ashcombe the Story of a Fifteen Year Lease, (1949)
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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