Black Barn Cottage
BLACK BARN COTTAGE, 46, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262168
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Black Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLACK BARN COTTAGE, 46, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262168
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Black Barn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLACK BARN COTTAGE, 46, HIGH 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:
- BLACK BARN COTTAGE, 46, HIGH STREET
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 90676 56789
Details
STEEPLE ASHTON HIGH STREET ST 9056 (west side) 13/258 No 46 (Black Barn Cottage) (formerly listed as 46 Black Barn 11.9.68 Farmhouse) GV II*
Detached house. C15, altered C16, refronted early C19. Square- panelled timber-framing on stone plinth with short buttresses, brick nogging, front rendered, stone slate roof, brick stacks to rear. Five-bay main range with 2-bay open hall at south end, C16 parlour wing to west. Two-storey, 3-window. Six-panelled door with flat stone hood on brackets to right of centre, 12-pane sash to right, two sashes to left. First floor has three 9-pane sashes. Right return is timber-framed with blocked doorway, single-light casement to first floor. Left return has C20 ground and attic floor casements; rendered up to top of first floor. Rear of main range has large stone and brick added stack to hall. Rear wing has dressed stone ground floor, timber-framed first floor; C20 conservatory to south side, 2-light or single-light casements. Interior: Hall range has C16 inserted ceiling with moulded cross beams, inserted lateral stack with timber lintel on stone jambs, moulded arch-braced collar truss roof exposed to first floor; chamfered windbraces formerly to two tiers of purlins, lower tier removed, smoke-blackening apparently also removed; the house was restored by Lady Long, C20. Parlour wing has restored Tudor-arched stone fireplace to ground floor, fine moulded cross-beam ceiling with exposed joists, Tudor-arched stone doorway between hall and parlour, probably a former external door. First floor bedroom with similar moulded cross beams and Tudor-arched stone fireplace, attic over with plain collar and tie-beam roof trusses and windbracing to purlins. Good example of a small house with high quality C16 alterations, in Steeple Ashton.
Listing NGR: ST9067656787
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435720
- 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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