Holbein Porch
HOLBEIN PORCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1199912
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Holbein Porch
- Statutory Address:
- HOLBEIN PORCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1199912
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Holbein Porch
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLBEIN PORCH
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:
- HOLBEIN PORCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wilton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 09650 30996
Details
1. 5409 WILTON PARK Holbein Porch SU 0930 5/1D 4.8.51. I GV
2. After 1548 and before 1563. Now a garden pavilion. Originally the entrance to the house from north of courtyard. Said to have been designed by Hans Holbein (died 1543). Removed to present position by Wyatt circa 1800. A splendid 2 storey porch, square in plan with freestanding corner set back paired columns. Highly ornamented. Ashlar. Corners rebated. Ground floor Ionic. 1st floor Corinthian, both fluted and reeded. Plinth and bases to ground floor, entablature of ground floor acts as plinth to 1st floor. Elaborate cresting of coupled fan pediments, griffins and urns. Each front has a central panel of arms and 2 busts in roundels on 1st floor. On ground floor entrances on 3 sides with elaborate architraves. Inside is a moulded cornice with bracket corbels below seven 3-centred moulded ribs with central pendants. Traces of colour.
Listing NGR: SU1055030729
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319354
- 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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