Wans House
WANS HOUSE, SANDY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200695
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wans House
- Statutory Address:
- WANS HOUSE, SANDY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200695
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Wans House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WANS HOUSE, SANDY 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:
- WANS HOUSE, SANDY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Derry Hill & Studley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 96678 67570
Details
ST 96 NE BROMHAM SANDY LANE
2/63 Wans House 19.3.62 II
Country House, c1820, probably on C18 core, ashlar and rendered brick with slate hipped roofs and brick stacks. 2-storey, 3-window centre set back on high plinth with 2-storey early C19 verandah partly enclosed by projecting single storey bow-fronted wings. Rendered and irregular 2-storey rear range. Main front has moulded cornice and parapet, largely obscured by verandah, slightly projected centre, early C19 double doors to ground floor centre, arch-headed French windows in reeded surround to first floor centre and 12-pane sashes each side. Paterae flanking centre bay on first floor with wheat-ear garlands. Verandah has 6 thin iron columns to ground floor and 8 wooden trellis uprights above with iron balconies between. Slate roof. Main cornice is continued on West side wall. Flanking wings have three 12-pane sashes to bow fronts, raised plinths, moulded sill-courses, panelled cornices and parapets with moulded coping. C20 ashlar-fronted open garden room added to East of East wing. Interior: generally Regency style door and window detail to front range, iron stair rail. Both wings have single room with shallow coved ceiling and decorative frieze. House is marked on 1773 Andrews and Drury map, said to date from 'shortly before 1821' (Pevsner). (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 462).
Listing NGR: ST9667867570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 311213
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 462
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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