BOWDEN HILL HOUSE

BOWDEN HILL HOUSE, BOWDEN HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198125
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: BOWDEN HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BOWDEN HILL HOUSE, BOWDEN HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198125
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: BOWDEN HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BOWDEN HILL HOUSE, BOWDEN HILL

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOWDEN HILL HOUSE, BOWDEN HILL

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lacock
National Grid Reference:: ST9392867568

Details

LACOCK BOWDEN HILL ST 96 NW (south side) 3/22 Bowden Hill House II

Country House, c1850-60, squared ironstone with ashlar dressings, Bridgwater tile roofs and shaped ashlar stacks. Two storeys and attic, Jacobean style with coped shaped gables and mullion-and- transom windows. Main front has 3 gables, each with 2-light mullion window. Parapet between. Main floors have 2-storey crenellated canted bay of 1-3-1 light windows each side, a single 4-light ground floor centre window and 2-light, 3-light and 2-light windows to first floor centre. Continuous moulded courses over each floor. Five-shaft rear stack to left, 5-shaft cross-axial stack on ridge. End gables are similar, but right end has single storey projection, part of a demolished range. Two rear wings each with shaped end gables. North west rear wing has shaped gable on west side and projecting flat-roofed enclosed porch in angle behind main range. Interior not inspected. House was probably built for H. A. Merewether Q.C. (d 1877) and was owned by H. Harris in 1880s. (Wiltshire at Opening of XX Century, 1906 17)

Listing NGR: ST9392867568

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 315455
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Wiltshire at Opening of Twentieth Century, (1906), 17

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.