The Prospect
THE PROSPECT, HILPERTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242014
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Prospect
- Statutory Address:
- THE PROSPECT, HILPERTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242014
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- The Prospect
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PROSPECT, HILPERTON ROAD
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:
- THE PROSPECT, HILPERTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trowbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86502 58341
Details
TROWBRIDGE HILPERTON ROAD ST8658 970-0/10/10005 (South East side) The Prospect
GV II
Large house. Circa 1830's, with later C19 and C20 additions. Limestone ashlar. Low-pitched slate hipped roof with lead-roll hips and ridge and deep eaves. Ashlar axial and lateral stacks with cornices. PLAN: The original house is approximately square on plan with its principal rooms on the south east garden front and its main entrance on the south west side. Later in the C19 a large wing was built at the rear [north west] and in the C20 another wing was built on the the north east side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical south east garden front of 1:3:1 bays, the centre bowed; wooden verandah on the ground floor bowed at the centre, with columns with shafts and spiral trail and with lead-clad tented canopy; tall French casements on ground floor; first floor 12-pane sashes in eared moulded architraves and apron panels. Moulded stringcourse at first floor level around whole building. South west side: Original house on left is of 3 bays, the centre breaks forward, ground floor panelled double doors and later C19 porch with 2 pairs of-panelled columns with composite capitals and entablature, flanking plate-glass sashes with panelled architraves, consoles and cornices; first floor 12-pane sashes in moulded eared architraves with apron panels. Later C19 extension on left 3:1:1 bays with canted 2-storey bay on left and tripartite window on right. Outbuilding wing to north west with taller pavilion at end with pyramidal roof with weather-vane. Rendered C20 wing on north east side. INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: ST8650258341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441359
- 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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