Dial House
DIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243834
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Dial House
- Statutory Address:
- DIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243834
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Dial House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DIAL HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- DIAL HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seend
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 94280 61022
Details
SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9461 (north side) 12/298 Dial House 19.3.62 GV II
House, C15 origins, recased in red brick in C18, with stone slate roofs. Two storeys and attic. Road front has massive projecting C15 ashlar chimney-breast with top set-off, sundial and ashlar stack. Red brick with ashlar dressings to each side, replacing timber-frame. Flush quoins. Left bay with dripmould and cyma- moulded recessed mullion windows, 2-light above, 3-light below, early C18. Two bays to right, brought forward, with string course and flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, 2-light and 3-light above, door, 2-light and 3-light below, probably later C18. One gabled dormer. Door is 6-panelled in beaded stone architrave with hood on brackets. Left end wall has dripmould and similar cyma-moulded recessed mullion windows, two 2-lights each floor. Two-light flush cyma-moulded attic window. Lean-to on rear wall but at north-west angle some C15 close studded timbering exposed. Roof is hipped at right end with end stack. String course carried around end wall with 2-light to each floor, to right of stack. Beyond, a rubble stone, plain-tiled 2-storey rear wing with casements and end stack, the north-west corner with some C15 or C16 framing, possibly a former detached kitchen. Interior: probably west end hall with cross-passage and solar over east end service rooms. Hall has panelled ceiling with moulded beams decorated at junction with carved leaves. Centre boss, now detached, has Hungerford family sickle emblem. Lateral stone moulded fireplace. (Wiltshire Buildings Record)
Listing NGR: ST9428061022
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448244
- 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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