WEST HILL HOUSE

WEST HILL HOUSE, 4, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247319
Date first listed:: 19-May-1950
List Entry Name:: WEST HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: WEST HILL HOUSE, 4, MARKET HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1247319
Date first listed:: 19-May-1950
List Entry Name:: WEST HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: WEST HILL HOUSE, 4, MARKET HILL

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

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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:: WEST HILL HOUSE, 4, 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 99672 71058

Details

CALNE

ST9971 MARKET HILL 755-1/4/94 (North side) 19/05/50 No.4 West Hill House

GV II*

Includes: No.8 QUARR BARTON. Cottage and house, now office and flat. C17 rear cottage, incorporated into a later C17 central range, with a front range dated 1705. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, large left-hand rubble gable stack, right-hand ashlar stack, 2 right-hand lateral and rear gable stacks to rear range, pantile rear roof and slate front roof. L-shaped plan with 1705 parallel front range, left-hand C17 rear range, with an earlier single-room plan C17 cottage connected to the rear. 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 5-window front with 2-window left-hand return, and 1-storey and attic, 1-window range rear cottage. Principal front is symmetrical with quoins and a timber modillion cornice gutter, large rubble stack set in from the left-hand gable, and a ground-floor string. Timber bracketed pediment to a half-glazed door, and bolection-moulded architraves to early C19 6/6-pane sashes; 2 C19 gabled dormers. Good lead hopper and downpipe with joint clips inscribed H/IP/1705. Half-hipped gable of rear range rises above the ridge, with a C20 casement. Left-hand return has 2-window rear section set back with ground- and first-floor strings and coved cornice, with a late C19 ashlar porch in the angle; the right-hand side has a large lateral stack with a half gable, a first-floor window with label mould, and a straight joint with the front range. Rear cottage has timber lintel from earlier ground-floor window, exposed end of principal rafter, and later label moulds over the right-hand Tudor-arched door and 3-light mullion window with reserved chamfers; a C19 gabled casement dormer; rear elevation has a large lateral stack, and a wide right-hand C17 door. INTERIOR: details include an L-shaped cellar partly cut into bedrock, a heavy lateral beam with bracketed end supported by a turned timber post; a cyma-moulded mullion window to the side. Ground-floor left-hand room has a large fireplace with bressumer and left-hand niche, C17 scratch-moulded panelling; right-hand room with complete early C20 panelling and marble fireplace; central early C18 dogleg stair with column on vase balusters and uncut string; rear rooms with raised panelling. First floor has front room with early C18 panelling, overmantel and timber fire surround with fluted columns; right-hand stair, and rear bolection-moulded fireplaces. Rear cottage has a large fireplace, chamfered axial and lateral floor beams, inserted late C20 stair, and 2 sling-brace trusses, one set into the rear party wall with No.12 Quarr Barton (qv).

Listing NGR: ST9967271058

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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.