8, LONG STREET
8, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249844
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8, LONG STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 8, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1249844
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 8, LONG STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 8, LONG 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:
- 8, LONG STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Devizes
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 00532 61273
Details
1. 1042 LONG STREET (East Side) No 8 SU 0061 4/23 9.4.54.
II* GV
2. Dated 1737 on rain water head. 3 storeys and cellars. Rusticated ashlar ground floor on projecting plinth, with deep stone strings at lst and 2nd floor levels and over 2nd floor windows, stuccoed parapet with moulded stone coping. Upper part brick framed with stone pilasters, with strings biting over. Slightly projecting central feature with narrow vertical stone edging, parapet breaking forward over, and central panel with stone surround, the head of 2nd floor panel formed by string. The 1st floor panel segmental headed. On ground floor, central 6-panel door with plain arched fanlight, plain architrave and keystone, and surround of narrow pilasters double scroll brackets and segmental moulded stone hood. Hipped slate roof. 4 windows to 2nd floor, with flat stone surrounds and keystones. 2 Palladian windows on 1st floor, the central window, flat headed, with square Ionic piers and entablature with convex frieze. Architrave to arch over with solid stone tympanum. 4 windows on ground floor in arched recesses with radiating voussoirs and keystones. 2 cellar windows. All glazing bars altered. The back of the house is brick with stone quoins and window surrounds. 3 windows and later one-storey addition. Fine cast lead rainwater heads on ends at back of house. Good lion head brass knocker and handles. Contemporary panelling and enriched plaster ceilings.
Nos 8 to 30 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SU0053361273
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432064
- 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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