Church House

CHURCH HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252696
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Church House
Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1252696
Date first listed:
29-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:
Church House
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH HOUSE, VICARAGE LANE

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 90793 56968

Details

STEEPLE ASHTON VICARAGE LANE ST 9056 (north side) 13/276 Church House GV II

Part of rectory, now semi-detached house. 1828 extension to rectory (Old Parsonage q.v.) by H. Harrison. Bath stone cut and laid as Flemish bond brick, Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. Two- storey, 2-wihdow gable end entrance front. Square porch with buttresses and shallow Tudor-arched openings on two sides to right, glazed doors with interlaced tracery in moulded Tudor-arched inner doorway, plain parapet to flat roof, cross window to first floor over, canted bay with 3-light mullioned and transomed casement to left, 3-light mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould to first floor, string course to steep pedimented gable, concealing roof of shallower pitch. Left return has canted bay to left, two cross windows to right and three to first floor; all with hoodmoulds. Rear gable end has similar windows, C20 door. Interior retains original 1828 fittings, stairs with stick balusters and continuous handrail, 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, fireplaces. (Diocesan Records, Trowbridge)

Listing NGR: ST9079356968

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
435738
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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