Sheepwash on Ashfield Water, With Railings
SHEEPWASH ON ASHFIELD WATER, WITH RAILINGS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199826
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Sheepwash on Ashfield Water, With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SHEEPWASH ON ASHFIELD WATER, WITH RAILINGS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1199826
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jul-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Sheepwash on Ashfield Water, With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHEEPWASH ON ASHFIELD WATER, WITH RAILINGS
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:
- SHEEPWASH ON ASHFIELD WATER, WITH RAILINGS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mere
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 82507 32576
Details
ST 83 SW MERE BURTON
2/12 Sheepwash on Ashfield Water, with railings.
II
Remains of sheepwash basin. Probably Cl9. Squared drystone limestone blocks to large stone coping blocks. Walls are c1.25 m high enclosing a roughly coffin-shaped space c.ll m long overall and 4 m wide at the widest; the right hand (east) end is very narrow, and at the left end a return length of walling former a sluice-way or gateway. Left of this the walling runs c25 m alongside the road, then returns at right angles for c6 m. There are remanants of a stone paved floor in the small enclosure, but much of this now (October 1987) overgrown. On the road edge a set of railings in 9 panels with square posts at c2.5 m centres carrying a top rail of rod, and a lower rail with small close set vertices all set to the coping of the main structure. An interesting historical survival, once much more common in the area of the Downs.
Listing NGR: ST8250732576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320141
- 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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