29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262334
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262334
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S 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:
- 29 AND 30, ST JOHN'S STREET
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 00443 61354
Details
1. 1042 ST JOHN'S STREET (West Side)
Nos 29 and 30 SU 0061 3a/69 9.4.54.
II* GV
2. Dated 1749 on rain water head. 3 storeys. Upper part red brick with full height flanking stone pilaster strips. Projecting stone sill courses and block stone cornices over 1st and 2nd floor. Central stone bay carried up above brick parapet which is swept up to it and over flanking pilaster strips, with moulded stone coping. 5 windows to upper floors, sashes, glazing bars intact in moulded stone surrounds. The 1st floor window in stone bay is round headed flanked by double Doric pilasters with entablature over, double architrave to window head with projecting voussoirs broken over. On ground floor No 29 formerly had a good early C19 shop front now entirely modernised. No 30 retains its early C19 shop front. Pair of shop windows, no glazing bars, in moulded frames. Shop door of 1 fielded panel, upper part glazed with plain rectangular fanlight, framed by delicate panelled pilasters. Plain frieze and moulded cornice across front. Between the shops is a central passage entry to yard at rear. Recessed door of 4 flush panels and 2 shaped fielded panels in tympanum. Flanked by stone Doric pilasters with arch and keystone over.
Nos 23 to 41 (consec) and the part of the National Westminster Old Bank in Market Place form a very fine group.
Listing NGR: SU0043961348
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435299
- 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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