Part of Museum
PART OF MUSEUM, 40, LONG STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263316
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Part of Museum
- Statutory Address:
- PART OF MUSEUM, 40, LONG STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263316
- Date first listed:
- 09-Apr-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Part of Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- PART OF MUSEUM, 40, LONG 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:
- PART OF MUSEUM, 40, LONG 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 00549 61191
Details
1. 1042 LONG STREET (West Side)
No 40 (Museum, part of) SU 0061 4/43 9.4.54. II GV
2. Late C18 house now part of Museum. 2 storeys and attic red brick on shallow stone plinth. Stone band between storeys. Moulded stone cornice. Brick parapet with stone coping. Slightly projecting central bay. Mansard slate roof. 3 flat roofed dormers. 3 windows on 1st floor and 2 on ground floor, recessed, sash, no glazing bars, block sills, flat brick arches with doubled keystones. Central doorway of stone with semi engaged Doric columns, entablature and pediment. Door now replaced by window. To the left a 2 storeyed extension with stone coping to parapet. 1 blind window lst floor, double doors, originally stable entrance, on ground floor. To the right and linking No 40 with No 41 qv: the Museum entrance of 1872 in florid Gothic. 2 storeys Bath stone coursed rubble. Plinth with moulded capping. Parapet, with moulded coping, decorated with roundels containing quatrefoils. Moulded cornice. lst floor 4 light oriel type bay with stone hipped roof, pointed lights with cusping, drip moulds over, the stepped apron links up with door surround. Door set in pointed moulded arch, double with elaborate hinges. The doorway is flanked by pointed windows with drip moulds. Moulded sill course carried up over doorhead as drip mould. No 40 was at one time a school attended by Sir Thomas Lawrence PRA.
Nos 31 to 42 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SU0054961191
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432665
- 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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