COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE

COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE, CRICKLADE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184694
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE
Statutory Address:: COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE, CRICKLADE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184694
Date first listed:: 20-Sep-1979
List Entry Name:: COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE, CRICKLADE ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: COVERED AND VAULTED PASSAGES AND 4 UNDERGROUND CHAMBERS WEST OF WESTROP HOUSE, CRICKLADE ROAD

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

District:: Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Highworth
National Grid Reference:: SU 19888 92384

Details

1. 5410 HIGHWORTH CRICKLADE ROAD (north side) Covered and vaulted passages and 4 underground chambers west of Westrop House SU 1992 SE 18/256

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2. Circa 1818. Wilt for William Crowdy Lord of the Manor. Stone passages starting in yard to west of No 24 and in garden of Westrop House. Painted brick barrel vault. From the garden of Westrop House an ice house and garden chamber (formerly plastered) are reached by curved rock lined passages approached by a double entrance in a trellis work. Entrances with sponge stone. From back yard of No 24 a vaulted passage leads in serpentine manner to junction where one branch continues to former stable yard and another by further curved approach down to a (possibly) secondary ice house. Third branch blocked. Vents in vault. A further chamber - presumably a coal and fuel shed - is entered from backyard of No 24 close to tunnel entrance. Plain vaulted chamber with coal shute/vent. Such secretive haunts were no doubt innocent places of amusement to Squire Crowdy they have since been invested with a wealth of spiritual significance.

Listing NGR: SU1988892384

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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.