3, MARKET HILL
3, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247318
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 3, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1247318
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 3, MARKET HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3, MARKET HILL
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:
- 3, MARKET HILL
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 99685 71042
Details
CALNE
ST9971 MARKET HILL 755-1/4/93 (North side) 19/05/50 No.3
GV II*
Formerly known as: St Brigett's, St Mary's School MARKET HILL. House, school, now offices. Dated 1683, restored c1980. Rendered limestone rubble, ashlar right-hand lateral stack and stone slate hipped roof with flat, leaded centre. Double-depth plan with right-hand stair. 3 storeys, attic and cellar; 3-window range. Road front has a first-floor drip course; right of centre entrance with an early C19 timber bracketed pediment, ashlar surround and 6-panel door, with wrought-iron rails to steps up. Early or mid C19 ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, paired to the left; bolection-moulded architraves to late C18 6/6-pane first-floor sashes, and original stone-mullioned and transomed second-floor cavetto-moulded cross windows. W front has a continuous ground-floor label mould and first-floor string, with bolection-moulded paired ground-floor 6/6-pane sashes, and original 3- and central 2-light cross windows above; 2 late C20 hipped dormers, replacing a central one. Central sundial inscribed 1683. 2 similar cross windows light stairs to right-hand return. INTERIOR: details include a fine late C17 dogleg stair with turned balusters, square panelled newels, uncut string; fully panelled rear right-hand room and fire surround; vaulted cellar; C18 roof with plastered central room and 3-plank door, inscribed JG/1786; original 2-panel doors; first-floor C19 Egyptian Revival hob grates in bolection-moulded surrounds. The front room has a fine C17 stone fire surround and overmantel from Castle House (qv), with a carved central panel of a burning crocodile, and 2 figures supporting a painted cartouche. The flat, leaded roof may formerly have supported a lantern.
Listing NGR: ST9968671037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456689
- 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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