23 High Street

23, High Street, Devizes, SN10 1AT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262286
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1979
List Entry Name:: 23 High Street
Statutory Address:: 23, High Street, Devizes, SN10 1AT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262286
Date first listed:: 28-Mar-1979
List Entry Name:: 23 High Street
Statutory Address 1:: 23, High Street, Devizes, SN10 1AT

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 23, High Street, Devizes, SN10 1AT

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 00460 61407

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29/08/2019

SU 0061 4/351

HIGH STREET (West side) No 23

II Former Friends Meeting House built or rebuilt in 1701-2 superseding a building erected in 1689-90, on a site at Hillworth Park, Wicke, which was owned by the Friends since the mid C17. The meeting house is set back from the High Street behind a 1920s ashlar screen wall and stands on the west side of a former forecourt.

The east front is of one and a half storeys red brick with untreated stone quoins, wide coved plaster eaves cornice and a half hipped tiled roof with plain gabled dormer. Two tall windows, high set with flat arched heads and central doorway with windows above. The south wall is rendered with a projecting staircase wing. One bay extension to the original two bays, to rear, brickwork exposed.

Inside a single room with attic floor above the staircase half landing providing a primitive formerly shuttered gallery. The top flight of stairs has substantial early C16 turned balusters.

Listing NGR: SU0046061407

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Legacy System number:: 435455
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.