St Margarets Convent and Attached Walls
ST MARGARETS CONVENT AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267966
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets Convent and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARGARETS CONVENT AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267966
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- St Margarets Convent and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARGARETS CONVENT AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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:
- ST MARGARETS CONVENT AND ATTACHED WALLS, ROWDEN HILL
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 91311 72763
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9172 ROWDEN HILL 930-1/11/177 (West side) 22/06/78 St Margaret's Convent and attached walls (Formerly Listed as: ROWDEN HILL (West side) St Margaret's Convent)
II
House, now a convent. Dated 1765 with C19 and C20 additions. Rendered limestone ashlar, freestone rusticated quoins and dressings stone slate roof, mansard to the main block, pitched to the rear wing, moulded brick stacks to gable ends and centre slope of rear wing, that to the front left is large. PLAN: 2-unit plan with C19 rear right wing and C20 chapel to the left. EXTERIOR: 2 storey; symmetrical 5-window range. Wide coped gables, cornice, parapet, platband and moulded architraves to plate-glass sash windows, that to the centre is semicircular-arched with a keystone, imposts and a datestone "1765". Attached to the left return is a C20 single-storey chapel with a roof hipped over a canted return to the left with flat-arched windows, paired to the front and single-light to the facets of the return. A C20 hipped stone-slated colonnaded porch extends approx 15m to the street. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: limestone ashlar walls approx 2m high flank the porch and extend approx 60m to the left and 50m to the right.
Listing NGR: ST9131172763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462399
- 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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