THE SILKHOUSE

THE SILKHOUSE, 69-74, COTE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198324
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: THE SILKHOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE SILKHOUSE, 69-74, COTE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1198324
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: THE SILKHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE SILKHOUSE, 69-74, COTE LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE SILKHOUSE, 69-74, COTE LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Kilmington
National Grid Reference:: ST 77315 35789

Details

KILMINGTON COTE LANE ST 73 NE (south side) 3/76 Nos 69 and 70, 71 and 72, 73 and 74 The Silkhouse II Silkhouse, now three cottages. Probably early C18. Rubblestone, thatched roof with brick stacks. Single-storey and attic, 12 windows. Three planked doors, six 3-light and four 2-light casements, some in blocked doorways. Twelve hipped attic dormers with 2-light casements; 2 right bays are addition, probably late C18. To right return is attached rubblestone and brick extension with planked door and steel casement. Rear has three single storey wings, all with thatched roofs, the middle one late C19, the other two mid C20. Interior altered and remodelled by National Trust in mid C20. West cottage, Nos 69 and 70, has late C18 fireplace with moulded surround and dentil cornice, some planked doors. Middle cottage, Nos 71 and 72, has two blocked open fireplaces with timber lintels. Twelve-bay tie beam roof with 2-bay west addition. Converted to six cottages from a Silkhouse in 1849 by the Hoares of Stourhead House. (Stourhead Annals)

Listing NGR: ST7731535789

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Legacy System number:: 321182
Legacy System:: LBS

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