Pewsham House
PEWSHAM HOUSE, OLD DERRY HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239933
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pewsham House
- Statutory Address:
- PEWSHAM HOUSE, OLD DERRY HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1239933
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Pewsham House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEWSHAM HOUSE, OLD DERRY HILL
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:
- PEWSHAM HOUSE, OLD DERRY HILL
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 94818 70853
Details
ST 97 SW CALNE WITHOUT OLD DERRY HILL, Pewsham (south side)
1/107 Pewsham House
II
Country house, 1892, by C.E. Ponting for W.L. Lysley. Cattybrook red brick and Ham Hill stone dressings, plain tile hipped and gabled roofs and prominent moulded brick stacks. Two storeys and attic, mixed C17 detail with ovolo-moulded mullion windows. Asymmetric entrance front with hipped roof, large east stack and projecting gable to right with off-centre ashlar 2-storey porch bay. Main gable has attic 5-light and large 5 x 3-light mullion- and-transom leaded stair light to right of porch. Porch has shaped gable, narrow upper 4-light and ornate entry with Ionic pilasters, segmental arch, keystone and shell pediment. Bolection-moulded inner doorcase. To left, paired pedimented 4- light timber dormers, 2, 3 and 2-light upper windows and 2-light ground floor windows each side of large canted 1-3-1-light mullion- and-transom canted bay. Paired gabled service range to left. To right, wing gabled to west with north moulded stack. Moulded ashlar string continues around whole building. South front is near-symmetrical with gables each side of centre, left gable differently fenestrated to right. Centre 2-4-2-light timber dormer with segmental pediment, mullion windows to first floor and large off-centre 2-5-2-light mullioned and transomed canted bay. Service wing to right has paired gables and further gable-ended range to right. West end has large shaped gable at end of north front with off-centre 2-storey bay. Interior generally in mid to later C17 style with open well stair. Stained glass Lysley arms and monogram in stair windows. Design exhibited Royal Academy 1892. Illustrated Builder, 18.6 and 23.7.1892. Original drawings in the house.
Listing NGR: ST9481870853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437978
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in 18 June, (1892)
The Builder in 23 July, (1892)
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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