Pits Farmhouse
PITS FARMHOUSE, WADSWICK LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199220
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- PITS FARMHOUSE, WADSWICK LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199220
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pits Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- PITS FARMHOUSE, WADSWICK LANE
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:
- PITS FARMHOUSE, WADSWICK LANE
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 86101 68089
Details
CORSHAM WADSWICK LANE ST 86 NE Neston 3/384 Pits Farmhouse II
Farmhouse, now 2 cottages, early C17, rubble stone with concrete- tiled roof, hipped to south, coped gable to north with end stack. Axial stack on roof hip. Two storeys and attic. East front has 2 hipped dormers, one on roof slope, one, to right, at eaves. Recessed chamfered mullion windows, two 2-light and two 3-light to first floor. Ground floor long casements under catslide roof to left, blocked door, buttress, door with stone hood and, to right, two 3-light windows with hoodmoulds, one with relieving arch, flanking door with hoodmould. Rear has similar mullion windows, to left 3-light over 2-light, then projecting gable with ovolo-moulded windows, then central 3-light window with stepped buttress to right and projecting gabled stair tower with 3-light window. Ground floor to right projects under catslide roof. Door and 3-light ovolo-moulded window. Interior: heavy beamed 6-panel ceiling, Tudor-arched door to rear of through passage, stair with flat balusters and scratch moulded newels, first floor cupboard with butterfly hinges.
Listing NGR: ST8610168089
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315412
- 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.
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