Monkton House
MONKTON HOUSE, SADLERS MEAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267930
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Monkton House
- Statutory Address:
- MONKTON HOUSE, SADLERS MEAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267930
- Date first listed:
- 25-Apr-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Monkton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKTON HOUSE, SADLERS MEAD
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:
- MONKTON HOUSE, SADLERS MEAD
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 92556 73294
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST97SW SADLER'S MEAD 930-1/1/178 Monkton House 25/04/50 (Formerly Listed as: SADLER'S MEAD Monkton House (Flats Nos. 1-7))
II
Manor house, now flats. Dated 1757. Limestone ashlar, double-pitched slate roof with ashlar ridge stacks to front and rear ranges and one to the left of the valley. Mid-Georgian style. L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; symmetrical 7-bay range, 4 windows to the left return, 3 bays to the right return. The central 3 bays step slightly forward under a modillioned pediment; modillion cornice to front and returns; parapet balustraded over the windows; moulded architraves to windows, 3/6-pane sash windows to the 2nd floor, 6/6-pane sashes with cornices to the rest. Prostyle portico with Ionic columns supporting an entablature with a pulvinated palmette frieze and dentilled cornice over a moulded architrave to a 8-flush-panelled door. The rear is 5-window range, a large semicircular-arched stair window with a keystone is to the left of centre. A lead rainwater head and pipe is dated "1757". INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having been altered during conversion to flats.
Listing NGR: ST9255673294
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462406
- 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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