Kellaways House
KELLAWAYS HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199197
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Kellaways House
- Statutory Address:
- KELLAWAYS HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199197
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Kellaways House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KELLAWAYS HOUSE
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:
- KELLAWAYS HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bremhill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 96510 74977
Details
BREMHILL EAST TYTHERTON ST 97 SE (north side) 8/36 Kellaways House 20.12.60 GV II House, former Moravian girls' school, dated 1785, ashlar fronted with stone slate roof, coped gables and end stacks. Three storey, wide three-window range with sashes, in triplets each side and 16- pane to centre over 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets. Triplets are of 12-pane sashes to ground and first floors, 9-pane to second floor. Two raised bands and eaves band. Two storey range to east with first floor 20-pane sash, band and ground floor 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets, flanked by 12-pane sash each side. West end wall is ashlar with three raised bands, the upper band broken by large round arched window with keystone and date 1785. Two roundels in gable above. Rear wall is of red brick with ashlar bands and window surrounds. Attic centre 16-pane sash, first floor centre large 24-pane stair light with triplet of 12-pane sashes each side, ground floor pairs of 12-pane sashes each side of added projecting porch. House was built for 'single sisters' of the Moravian settlement established at East Tytherton from 1743. Foundation stone 19.5.1785, opened 11.10.1786. In 1877 it was converted to use as a boarding school. The Rev W.L. Bowles in 1828 described it as a house for ladies employed in fine needlework. (Informationfrom C. Stell; W.L. Bowles; A parochial history of the parish of Bremhill, 1828 153-5; N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 234)
Listing NGR: ST9651074977
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316160
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bowles, Reverend W L, A Parochial History of the Parish of Bremhill, (1828), 153-5
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 234
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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