TENNYSON HOUSE

TENNYSON HOUSE, COMBE LANE (STONAR SCHOOL)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263047
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: TENNYSON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: TENNYSON HOUSE, COMBE LANE (STONAR SCHOOL)

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Date:: 2007-04-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263047
Date first listed:: 13-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: TENNYSON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: TENNYSON HOUSE, COMBE LANE (STONAR SCHOOL)

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:: TENNYSON HOUSE, COMBE LANE (STONAR SCHOOL)

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Atworth
National Grid Reference:: ST8495765799

Details

ST 86 NW 1/55 13.11.62

ATWORTH COMBE LANE (west side) Stonar School Tennyson House (formerly listed as Cottles House)

GV II

Farm cottage, now school boarding house. Early C18, extended late C19. Random rubble stone, stone slate roof with gable end stone stacks with moulded cappings. Two-storey and attic, 5-window. Central planked door in trellised porch, 3-light and 2-light chamfered mullioned casements to left and two 3-light mullioned casements to right. First floor has five 2-light mullioned casements; end bays are C19 additions. Roof has four hipped attic dormers with 2-light casements. Right return has C19 casement in arched stone surround. Rear gabled stair turret to centre, C19 outshuts either side. Interior has winding stairs to attic, chamfered beams, 4-panelled and planked doors. Attached to rear facing road is gateway made up of reused C18 mouldings from architraves or entablatures, possibly from the C18 house pulled down and replaced by the present Stonar School 1770s.

Listing NGR: ST8495765799

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Legacy System number:: 433404
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.