11, VERNON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239291
Date first listed:: 18-May-1972
List Entry Name:: 11, VERNON SQUARE
Statutory Address:: 11, VERNON SQUARE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1239291
Date first listed:: 18-May-1972
List Entry Name:: 11, VERNON SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:: 11, VERNON SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 11, VERNON SQUARE

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:: SZ5940492547

Details

VERNON SQUARE 1. 1577 (West Side) No 11 SZ 5992 2/268 II

2. Originally a large house of 1851 (deeds). Now semi-detached the rear half as No 45 Melville Street. Tall three storeys on plinth, rough cast. Low pitch hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves, frieze below. Vernon Square front: three windows and one window wing to South. The centre bay breaks forward slightly. First floor cornice. Windows are recessed, sash, glazing bars intact, block sills. Central recessed door (No 11) four panels, two glazed, narrow rectangular fanlight, plain surround. Greek Doric porch, with fluted columns, enclosed with opening each side. with opening each side. Frieze but no cornice as first floor above has been boxed in, glazed, with colonettes at corners and dentil cornice. North front to Melville Street is flanked by pilaster strips. Two windows, squat on second floor, tall on other floors. No 11 Vernon Square has addition of superimposed canted bays to ground and first floors, but No 45 Melville Street retains original fenestration, recessed sash, glazing bars, block sills. Fine anthemion balcony on brackets to first floor window. To West, originally garden front, three windows. On the left hand a two storeyed wing projects with a bowed end, articulated by giant pilasters with frieze cornice and parapet, flat roof, Two windows to side. All windows with glazing bars intact. The ground floor, adjoining wing, has an attractive conservatory with panelled risers, seven lights and glazed door all with marginal glazing arched at top and eight lights above with marginal glazing. To the South of this front is a two storeyed wing with cornice and parapet, of one window, in similar style, the ground floor brought forward in line with conservatory, having a glazed door with fanlight.

Listing NGR: SZ5940492547

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Legacy System number:: 417144
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.