403 AND 404 THE SPA
403 AND 404 THE SPA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194754
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 403 AND 404 THE SPA
- Statutory Address:
- 403 AND 404 THE SPA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1194754
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- 403 AND 404 THE SPA
- Statutory Address 1:
- 403 AND 404 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:
- 403 AND 404 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:
- ST9143262818
Details
ST 96 SW
4/209
MELKSHAM WITHOUT
THE SPA, MELKSHAM
(east side)
Nos 403 and 404
GV
II
Pair of attached houses. Early C19. Ashlar front and sides,
rubblestone to rear, Welsh slate hipped roof with central stone and
brick stacks. 4 storeys, 4 windows. Entrance doors to left and
right are up stone steps to first floor rusticated porches. No 403
has C20 door below fanlight, No. 404 has 6-fielded-panelled double
doors with fanlight. Basement has two 8-pane sashes and French
windows. First floor is rusticated with four 8-pane sashes in
semi-elliptical arched panels. Plat band with key decoration to
second floor, four tall 8-pane sashes with wrought iron balconies.
Third floor has smaller 8-pane sashes, second and third floor
windows are separated by grooved pilasters carried up to cornice,
with panelled frieze below. Blocking course. Left and right
returns have blind windows to second and third floors and
rusticated blind semi-circular arches to first floor of porch.
Interior of No 403 not inspected; No 404 interior has grooved door
cases and second floor drawing room with plaster cornice and marble
fireplace; large 6-panelled double doors link rear and front rooms.
First floor rooms have less elaborate plaster cornices. No 404 has
2 storey gabled mid C19 wing to rear, with two sashes. 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: ST9143262818
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314426
- 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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