Sheldon House
SHELDON HOUSE, 10, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247410
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Sheldon House
- Statutory Address:
- SHELDON HOUSE, 10, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1247410
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Sheldon House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELDON HOUSE, 10, THE GREEN
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:
- SHELDON HOUSE, 10, THE GREEN
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 99992 70806
Details
CALNE
ST9970 THE GREEN 755-1/5/150 (East side) 19/05/50 No.10 Sheldon House
GV II
House. c1656, refronted and altered late C18-early C19, refaced. Limestone ashlar and rubble with left-hand and rear valley stack, with stone slate roof. 2-room plan with right-hand and rear parallel ranges. 2 storeys, cellar and attic; 3-window range. A symmetrical front has pilasters, cornice, and parapet with raised central section, coped gables with right-hand ball finial. Central doorway has a bracketed pediment and architrave to a 6-panel door, the top pair glazed. Plain ashlar surrounds with angle beads to paired outer and single central windows with late C19 plate-glass sashes with margin panes. 3 gabled dormers have 8-panes. The right-hand gable has a blocked ground-floor window, and blocked 3-light C17 attic window with chamfered surround and label mould, with a lead down pipe with original hopper to the front. The side wall behind is set in slightly, with a rear wide doorway and 6-panel door, and a 10/10-pane ground-floor sash. Rear extended early C20. INTERIOR: details include a flagged central hall, front rooms have moulded lateral beams, central early C18 rear dogleg stair with column-on-vase balusters and ramped rail. Front left-hand room has early C18 panelling, fireplace and overmantel, and a fine rear shell-head niche in a blocked window; right-hand room has fine and notable example of early faux panelling wallpaper. First-floor left-hand room has a good C17 scratch-moulded cupboard set in a blocked rear window; chamfered ceiling beams. Varied roof structure, with no ridge to the right-hand section, and threaded ridge to the centre; one arch brace visible in the wall. Early C19 stone fireplaces with hob grates. (Wiltshire Buildings Record: Trowbridge: 1991-).
Listing NGR: ST9999770809
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456880
- 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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