Lowden Manor
LOWDEN MANOR, LOWDEN HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268058
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Lowden Manor
- Statutory Address:
- LOWDEN MANOR, LOWDEN HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268058
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Lowden Manor
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWDEN MANOR, LOWDEN 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:
- LOWDEN MANOR, LOWDEN 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 91390 73219
Details
CHIPPENHAM
ST9173SW LOWDEN HILL 930-1/8/86 Lowden Manor 22/06/78
II
House. C16 or C17, remodelled early C19 with c1919 south and west additions in the vernacular style. Roughcast limestone rubble with freestone quoins and platband below the parapet; steep-pitched stone slate roof with 2-light casement windows to 3 C20 hipped dormers; moulded ashlar stacks to former gable ends. Formerly 3-unit plan, now L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; symmetrical 3-window range to the main block, 4 windows to the c1919 gabled right wing. 8/8-pane sash windows flank 6/6-pane central windows; that to the ground floor in the position of a former door, that to the 1st floor is semicircular-arched. A c1919 porch to the left return has a hipped stone slate roof supported by 3 square pillars; above it to the right is a timber lintel to a small C18 window, to the left is a 2-light stone mullioned window. INTERIOR: not inspected but noted as having carved stops to chamfered beams and a 4-centred arch, ogee mouldings and mantle to an open fire. HISTORY: records of the manor exist from 1258 when Henry III gave the property to William de Valeree, Earl of Pembroke. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 20).
Listing NGR: ST9139073219
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Chamberlain, J A, Chippenham, (), 20
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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