GIFFORD HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1262897
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: GIFFORD HALL
Statutory Address:: GIFFORD HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1262897
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: GIFFORD HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GIFFORD HALL

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:: GIFFORD HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broughton Gifford
National Grid Reference:: ST 87455 64422

Details

BROUGHTON GIFFORD THE COMMON ST 86 SE (north side) 4/71 Gifford Hall 13.11.62 GV II*

Detached house. Circa 1700. Limestone ashlar, hipped stone slate roof with stone stacks. Two-storey and attic, 5-window. Two 2- light recessed cyma mullioned casements to basement. Central 8- panelled double doors up semi-circular stone steps, in bolection- moulded architrave with carved segmental pediment on brackets, two 12-pane sashes either side in bolection-moulded architraves with dripstones, retaining thick glazing bars. First floor has five 12- pane sashes. Modillioned cornice with acanthus leaf ornament, pediment with lozenge over centre, two attic hipped dormers with 2- light casements. Right return has ribbed door with dripstone and bull's eye over, 2-light cyma mullioned casement to right and 12- pane sash to left, first floor to left has sash, mezzanine and first floor to right have two 2-light glazed door and 2-light mullioned casement to ground and first floor. Rear wing to left with mullioned casements, large 12-pane sash in bolection-moulded architrave lighting stairs in central stair turret. Linked to rear by mid C20 addition is C17 cottage with C20 mullioned casements. Interior with good original early C18 fittings. Stairs to rear have two turned balusters per tread, wide moulded handrail, dado with fielded panelling, good plaster ceiling over with rich floral and fruit decoration. Room to left of entrance has full fielded panelling, blocked corner fireplace, window shutters. Room to right has bolection-moulded stone fireplace surround with cornice. Dining-room also with bolection moulded fireplace and fielded panelling. First floor bedrooms retain full fielded panelling, bolection-moulded fireplaces, doors with 2 fielded panels, ground floor doors have 8 moulded panels. Winding stairs to attic. Former cottage to rear, now services, has chamfered beam and blocked open fireplace with timber lintel. A good, little altered example of an early C18 small classical house, built for the Harding family. (Countryside Treasures, 1969).

Listing NGR: ST8745564422

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Legacy System number:: 433420
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Survey of Countryside Treasures, (1969)

Legal

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