Brook House
BROOK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262320
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262320
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Brook House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK HOUSE, 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:
- BROOK HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Semington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89802 60792
Details
SEMINGTON HIGH STREET ST 86 SE (west side) 4/196 Brook House GV II
Villa. Circa 1850. Limestone ashlar, hipped Welsh slate roof with ashlar stacks. Rectangular main range with rear service wing. Italianate. Two-storey, 3-window, symmetrical front. Central door with glazed vertical panels, pilastered porch with consoles to cornice, either side are triple plate glass sashes with segmental headed and heavy moulded cornice with consoles. First floor has central double round-arched sashes with moulded capitals to pilasters flanked by triple sashes with round-arched heads and moulded capitals. Moulded cornice to blocking course with 3 panels of pierced oval discs. Left return has triple sashes with segmental heads, consoles to cornice, within conservatory, 2-light wooden casement to left, first floor has 2-light flush mullioned casement to left and triple round-arched window to right with blind sidelights and centre sash, cornice to plain blocking course. Right return has 16-pane sashes. Rear 2-storey service wing with flush mullioned sashes and rear of main range with 16-pane sashes. Interior not accessible at time of survey (January 1987), but said to retain original features such as stairs and joinery. Included as a good little altered example of the Italianate villa, probably built for a local industrial entrepreneur.
Listing NGR: ST8980260792
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435209
- 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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