Westmead House and Attached Wall
WESTMEAD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WESTMEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267829
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Westmead House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address:
- WESTMEAD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WESTMEAD LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267829
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Westmead House and Attached Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- WESTMEAD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WESTMEAD LANE
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:
- WESTMEAD HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, WESTMEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chippenham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 91958 73104
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SE WESTMEAD LANE 930-1/9/261 (West side) 22/06/78 Westmead House and attached wall (Formerly Listed as: WESTMEAD LANE (West side) No.26 Westmead House)
II
House, facing south at a right angle to the road. Early C19. Coursed limestone rubble, freestone eaves cornice, lintel band, architraves, plinth and quoins; hipped slate roof with stacks to the rear and bracketed gutter. 2-unit plan with C20 west wing, C18 rear wing now listed separately as No.26 Westmead Lane (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; symmetrical 3-window range. C20 replica doors and windows. Semicircular arches over 6-panel door and 1st-floor window with unusual radial glazing bars, flanked by horned 8/8-pane sash windows. INTERIOR: the ground floor has 6-panel doors in moulded architraves, panelled shutters, a white marble fire surround to the right-handroom, a repositioned Adam-style fire surround to the left-hand room is flanked by semi-elliptical recesses. There is a dogleg staircase with stick balusters, and a cast-iron arch-plate register grate to the 1st floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: a Flemish-bond brick wall approx 3m high, attached to the south-east corner, extends approx 7m southward and fronts the street. An entrance at the end of the wall has an upside-down C19 Gothic-style door with vertical panels.
Listing NGR: ST9195873104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462520
- 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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