27, MELVILLE STREET
27, MELVILLE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221609
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 27, MELVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 27, MELVILLE STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10324/12
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1221609
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1972
- List Entry Name:
- 27, MELVILLE STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 27, MELVILLE STREET
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:
- 27, MELVILLE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ryde
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 59688 92559
Details
MELVILLE STREET 1. 1577 (North Side) No 27 SZ 5992 3/262
II GV
2. Circa 1830/40 villa enlarged mid C19 and later. Two storeys stucco faced. Low pitch hipped slate roof with lean-to slate roof added over built out front. Three windows on first floor, recessed, sash, glazing bars intact. Ground floor projects in very large lead roofed bay of five lights to front with glazing bars and large fixed side windows also with glazing bars, and a two storey wing has also been added to the West. North garden front to Bellevue Road qv: has frieze, cornice and parapet returned on side walls. The centre of the facade projects slightly and the Western way has one window on this front. Three windows to main block: superimposed bays of 3 lights each to the East, sash, glazing bars, plain strips, cornice over the first floor one and in the centre of the ground floor bay a French window. The Western windows (including wing) are recessed, sash, with glazing bars on first floor, the one on the main block having an architrave surround, and block consoles to the sill. French windows to ground floor. In the centre of the first floor is an original French window with marginal glazing bars, architrave surround and pediment on scrolled consoles. It gives on to the roof of a rather crude Ionic porch with free standing columns and a small pediment in the centre of the entablature to the front. Recessed panelled and stained glass door set in architrave surround. The house was used by Queen Victoria's retinue on one of her earliest visits to the Island.
Nos 25 to 28 (consec) with No 1 Trinity Street form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ5968892559
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 413448
- 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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