399 AND 400 THE SPA
399 AND 400 THE SPA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194751
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 399 AND 400 THE SPA
- Statutory Address:
- 399 AND 400 THE SPA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194751
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 399 AND 400 THE SPA
- Statutory Address 1:
- 399 AND 400 THE SPA
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:
- 399 AND 400 THE SPA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Melksham Without
- National Grid Reference:
- ST9139162846
Details
ST 96 SW
4/207
MELKSHAM WITHOUT
THE SPA, MELKSHAM
(east side)
Nos 399 and 400
GV
II
Pair of attached houses. Early C19. Ashlar front and sides;
rubblestone to rear, Welsh slate hipped roof, ashlar and brick
stacks. 4 storeys, 4 windows. Entrance doors are to left and
right, up stone and brick steps to first floor, rusticated flat-
roofed porches with semi-circular headed doorways, fanlights and 6
fielded panelled double doors. Entrance to No 399 has wrought iron
porch and canopy in addition to stone porch. Basement has two 8-
pane sashes and French windows; missing to No 399 and C20 to No
400. First floor is rusticated with four 8-pane sashes in semi-
elliptical panels. Plat band with key pattern to second floor,
four tall 8-pane sashes with wrought iron balconies. Third floor
has four smaller 8-pane sashes, windows of second and third floors
are separated by grooved pilasters carried up to cornice, panelled
frieze below. Blocking course. Left and right returns have blind
semi-circular rusticated arched windows to first floor of porch and
oculi to ground floor. Rear has four sashes with semi-circular
headed windows Lighting stairs.
Interior of No 400, (No 399 not inspected): Main feature is second
floor drawing room with large 6-panelled double doors in grooved
case, linking front and back of house; moulded plaster cornice and
high skirting boards. First -floor rooms have less elaborate
plaster cornice. Part of a spa development in Melksham of c1815
whose success was shortlived.
(Melksham Guide 1815; V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol. 7, 1953)
Listing NGR: ST9139162846
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314424
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Melksham Guide, (1815)
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1953)
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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