RAF Club
RAF CLUB, 41, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247102
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- RAF Club
- Statutory Address:
- RAF CLUB, 41, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247102
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- RAF Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- RAF CLUB, 41, CHURCH 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:
- RAF CLUB, 41, CHURCH STREET
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 99859 70826
Details
CALNE
ST9970 CHURCH STREET 755-1/5/38 (West side) 19/05/50 No.41 RAF Club (Formerly Listed as: CHURCH STREET (West side) No.41 Masonic Hall)
GV II*
Priest's house or vicarage, now a services club. Early C17. Coursed limestone rubble, formerly limewashed, pantile roof with square stone stack with 2 diagonal brick shafts to left S gable end, brick stack to front right gable end and triple diagonal-shafted brick stack to central valley. Original stair and entrance destroyed c1948-61. 2 rooms deep with entrance passage positioned to right of front parlour, left-hand and parallel S ranges. 2 storeys; 3-window range. A 2-storey central splayed bay with a hipped roof has leaded 5-light ovolo-mullioned and transomed windows, with left-hand cross windows, right-hand lower and smaller mullion window, possibly a former stair window. Below it a fine C17 planked and studded door with strap hinges set in a chamfered semi-elliptical-arched architrave. The S range has a first-floor 3-light ovolo-moulded window with C20 glass beneath a heavy relieving lintel; reported to have a 4-course dovecote in one of the gables. INTERIOR: a through-passage to the right has a C17 rear door similar to that at the front, both doors are horizontally planked on the inside. The ground-floor front room (formerly 2 rooms) has an open fire to the rear wall with a stone surround, cyma-moulded mantelshelf and a flat arch with curved corners and sunk spandrels. A crossbeam to the left has mortices for a stud wall, 2 axial beams have runout stops. A C19 staircase rises to the rear left. The room to the rear service area, on a higher level, has an open fire with a stone surround backing onto the same stack. The room to the first-floor front has wide oak floorboards, a similar but smaller fireplace to the rear wall and the ceiling is divided into 6 irregular panels, some with drilled wattle holes, some with slotted holes, all with run-out stops. The room to rear, on a higher level, has an open fire with a stone overmantel. Collar truss roof with cambered collars. No access to the attic or basement, both said to have original features. The best surviving C17 town house in Calne, and a notable example of its type with a fine facade. (Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge: B167).
Listing NGR: ST9985970826
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455162
- 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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