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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- 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)
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- 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.
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