Old Chesils
OLD CHESILS, 6, DARK LANE NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252507
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Chesils
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHESILS, 6, DARK LANE NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252507
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Old Chesils
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHESILS, 6, DARK LANE NORTH
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:
- OLD CHESILS, 6, DARK LANE NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Ashton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 90823 56848
Details
STEEPLE ASHTON DARK LANE NORTH ST 9056 (south side) 13/229 No 6 (Old Chesils) GV II
Detached cottage. C16 with late C17 addition. Formerly timber- framed, rebuilt in rubble stone, thatched roof with gable end brick stacks. L-plan. Entrance in west gable end of 2-bay C16 range; single-storey and attic, 1-window. C20 porch and door with 2-light segmental-headed casement over. Left return has 2-light casement. Right return has 2-light casement and French windows within C20 conservatory; not of special interest. C17 two-storey range attached to north has two 2-light casements to ground and first floors, brick stack to left, C20 rear casements. Rear gable end of C16 range has lean-to extension, exposed timber-frame to attic with casements. Interior has deep chamfered beams with stepped stops, open fireplace with cambered chamfered timber lintel on wooden jambs, timber-framed partitions to C16 range, some smoke-blackening of roof timber at west end, possibly due to position of former timber smoke hood rather than to a formerly open house with central hearth. C17 range has open fireplace with plain timber lintel on stone jambs, chamfered beams.
Listing NGR: ST9082356848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435499
- 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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