Overtown Manor

OVERTOWN MANOR, OVERTOWN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185742
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
Overtown Manor
Statutory Address:
OVERTOWN MANOR, OVERTOWN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1185742
Date first listed:
20-Sept-1979
List Entry Name:
Overtown Manor
Statutory Address 1:
OVERTOWN MANOR, OVERTOWN

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
OVERTOWN MANOR, OVERTOWN

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

District:
Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wroughton
National Grid Reference:
SU 15361 79628

Details

1. 5410 WROUGHTON OVERTOWN Overtown Manor SU 17 NE 15/556

II

2. Dated 1693, altered with a large mid C19 extension to south. Old part: 2 storeys rubble with hipped tile roof and 3 brick chimneys. The eastern chimney having large external stepped stack. Coved cornice to eaves. Seven windows, glazing bar sashes with moulded frames, only one window retains lintel from former mullion window. Six panel door to left, half glazed early Victorian door to right with reeded surround and lower panels. Datestone roughly central with raised lettering E.W. 1693 Hipped pebbledash return to west. Two windows, tripartite to left. Dormer. Doorway to right with reeded frame and lower panels and bracketted hood. Large circa 1870s 2 1/2 storey extension to right forming 3 bay separate gabled house of rough faced rubble, with tiled roofs and pierced bargeboards. To west: railings retaining urn finials to standards, 3 gates, and a large standard of 4 panels of lozengework to north.

Listing NGR: SU1536179628

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
318636
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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