ST CECILIA'S

ST CECILIA'S, 5, CURZON STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247117
Date first listed:: 19-May-1950
List Entry Name:: ST CECILIA'S
Statutory Address:: ST CECILIA'S, 5, CURZON STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247117
Date first listed:: 19-May-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Dec-1995
List Entry Name:: ST CECILIA'S
Statutory Address 1:: ST CECILIA'S, 5, CURZON STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST CECILIA'S, 5, CURZON 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 99666 71170

Details

CALNE

ST9971 CURZON STREET 755-1/4/48 (North side) 19/05/50 No.5 St Cecilia's (Formerly Listed as: CURZON STREET (North side) No.9) (Formerly Listed as: CURZON STREET (North side) No.5 Curzon House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.5 AND 7 CURZON STREET. Pair of attached houses, with left-hand house, now all one school building. Dated 1743; extended early C19, including early-mid C19 left-hand house. Red brick with darker brick surrounds, rubbed brick dressings and limestone ashlar, sandstone flagged terrace, slate hipped roof and lateral and gable stacks. Double-depth plan, with early C19 extended projecting wings flanking raised platform. 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 2:7-window range. A wide symmetrical front has projecting early C19 single-window ashlar wings connected by a raised terrace, rusticated ashlar central section, cornice and parapet. Doorways with architraves set 1-window in from the ends of the central range, with broken pediments with balls on console brackets, 6-panel doors, the right-hand one with a good octagonal lantern in the overlight. The central brick range has cill bands and a first-floor drip course, panelled aprons, and windows with plat band and cornice with different moulding, keyed architraves, segmental heads and horned 6/6-pane sashes; wings have horned recessed 6/6-pane sashes, with a right-hand first-floor 15/15-pane sash. Steps up through the terrace to the doorways, low terrace cellar windows; former railings removed. Good original downpipe and hopper dated 1743. Left-hand 2-window house has a right-hand door and horned 6/6-pane sash. Right-hand return has a second-floor cross window. Rear elevation, rebuilt c1840 in Domestic Tudor style, has a central projecting gable with a full-height 5-light canted bay, and cross windows with labels. INTERIOR: altered mid C19; details include an axial passage with semicircular arches, a right-hand stair hall with timber open-well stair, curtail and late C19 wrought-iron railings; front room with C17 oak linenfold panelling and boxed cornice, cast-iron hob grate and stone surround; vaulted cellars. The mid C18 house is a good example of an early semi-detached house. That part formerly listed as No.9 Curzon Street was listed on 08/07/76.

Listing NGR: ST9964471168

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Legacy System number:: 456340
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.