Obelisk House
OBELISK HOUSE, 1, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193636
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk House
- Statutory Address:
- OBELISK HOUSE, 1, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1193636
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 31-Mar-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Obelisk House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OBELISK HOUSE, 1, CHURCH STREET
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:
- OBELISK HOUSE, 1, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Warminster
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86923 45166
Details
WARMINSTER CHURCH STREET 1. 5411 (West Side) No 1 (Obelisk House). [Formerly listed as No 1 (Emwell House)] ST 8645 SE 5/75 28.4.52.
II GV
2. Now divided into flats. Late C18 or early C19. 2 storeys. Ashlar on squared rubble base. Plain string at 1st floor level, moulded string over 1st floor windows. Plain frieze and moulded coved coping over parapet. Old tile roof. 2 brick chimneys. 5 windows on 1st floor, sashes, centre 3 Panes wide, remainder 4 panes. Four 4-paned windows on ground floor and central 6-panel door in plain arched recess with raised architrave and keystone, doorhead ornamented with key pattern, and delicate fanlight of circular pattern and device of letters S and W and shield. The initials S. W. apparently represent the builder of the front, Samuel White. An ancestor of the same name, or possibly the same man when much younger, probably built No 3 Church Street. Gabled 2 storey extension to rear with tile hung 1st floor. The back of Obelisk House is irregular and gabled. To left hand of the street front is a 2 storey rubble extension, probably early C19, with 2 small windows and door on ground floor, and a modern and faced turretted clock at roof level. Erected 1913. 2 bronze plaques on house commemorating the clock to John Hall famous Tariff Reformer in West of England 1830-1909.
Listing NGR: ST8691745167
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312855
- 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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