Castlefield House and Attached Front Walls
CASTLEFIELD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, 28, CASTLE WALK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246414
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Castlefield House and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLEFIELD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, 28, CASTLE WALK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246414
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1976
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Castlefield House and Attached Front Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLEFIELD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, 28, CASTLE WALK
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:
- CASTLEFIELD HOUSE AND ATTACHED FRONT WALLS, 28, CASTLE WALK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99541 70962
Details
CALNE
ST9970 CASTLE WALK 755-1/5/20 (North side) 08/07/76 No.28 Castlefield House and attached front walls (Formerly Listed as: CASTLE WALK (North side) No.28 Castlefield House, Flats Nos.1-4)
II
House, now nursing home. c1830s. For Henry Alworth Merriweather, 1780-1864, Town Clerk of the City of London. Squared, coursed limestone, slate cross-gabled roof, with lateral and axial ridge ashlar stacks. Picturesque Tudor Revival style. Irregular plan of shallow wings projecting from an axial range. 2 storeys and attic; 4-window range to front. Entrance front has a crenellated porch with diagonal buttresses and a Tudor-arched doorway, set in the angle with a gabled left-hand wing, with kneelers, coping and finial; at the right-hand end is an ashlar crenellated wing with diagonal buttresses. Tudor-arched windows with label moulds, some with good original intersecting cast-iron glazing bars with small panes in sashes and casements, and a 4-light canted 2-storey bay to the left-hand wing. Tall octagonal stacks with crenellated cornices: a central pair, triple to the right, and 4 to an axial ridge stack on the left-hand wing. The E elevation has a similar gable to the front, and a large conservatory with coped parapet round and gableted pinnacles set to the side. A pair of gables with turned finials faces the road, the right-hand one with a canted oriel, and the W elevation has 2 further gables, with an oriel and crocket finial in the left-hand one and a pair of stacks above blind windows to the right. A tall parapet pierced with trefoil openings extends round the E and S sides. INTERIOR: altered; details include a good stone open-well stair to the central full-height stair hall with a curtail and inlaid star, and ramped rail; Tudor-arched doors with quatrefoil panels; bedrooms and stair hall with shallow false vaults; flagged cellars. Remains of a well. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached rubble wall with crenellated parapet, lancet windows, and a Tudor-arched doorway in an ashlar panel extends along the S front. A relatively early and imaginative use of the Tudor Revival style.
Listing NGR: ST9954170962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455098
- 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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