RIDGE HOUSE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199004
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: RIDGE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RIDGE HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199004
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:: RIDGE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RIDGE HOUSE

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:: RIDGE HOUSE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Corsham
National Grid Reference:: ST 87361 68280

Details

CORSHAM THE RIDGE ST 86 NE 3/360 Ridge House GV II

House, mid to later C17, altered and refronted in later C18 and early C19. Rendered front, rubble stone elsewhere, stone-tiled roofs. Two and a half storeys, 3 to front. Front range has coped gables, ridge and end stacks, parapet ramped up at ends and early C19 dentil cornice. Raised strips in parapet as for a truncated pediment. Four-window range, first, third and fourth bays similar with slight irregularities, attic timber 2-light Gothic windows (masking C17 mullions), first floor 12-pane sashes with margin- lights in Tudor-arched surrounds with hoodmoulds, and ground floor French windows with hoodmoulds to outer bays, all apparently c1800- 30. Third bay has arched doorway with fanlight in open-pedimented Roman Doric surround, apparently later C18. Second bay has 2 storeys each with large 8-12-8 pane Venetian window in architrave, also later C18. To each side of front tall early C19 pointed arch with dentilled coping. End walls have C17 ovolo-moulded mullion windows, 2-light with hoodmould to each floor. Rear south-east has lean-to addition, probably late C18 for staircase with south end Venetian window. North-east C17 rear wing with 2-light windows on north side, coped east gable and 3-light east windows, recessed chamfered to first floor, ovolo-moulded above. Ground floor lean- to with door within in moulded architrave. To left is large projecting wing of 1904 by H. Brakspear with mullion-windows and square bay window. To right, attached at north-east angle is range, apparently C17, with ovolo-moulded mullion windows, 3-light to first floor east end, two 2-light to first floor south and one 3-light below, and 2-light to each floor of west end with door and hood on brackets. West end and north side stacks. A single-storey stone-tiled range runs north with west side C17 three-light ovolo- moulded window to right, door and 3-light early C19 Gothic window to left East side has 3-light early C19 Gothic window and opening to cellar. Ridge and end stacks. Interior: later C18 modillion cornice to room to left of door, chamfered beam and early C19 ceiling moulding in room to right.

Listing NGR: ST8736168280

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 315388
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.