Rooks Nest Farmhouse
ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE, FORSET LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268076
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Rooks Nest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE, FORSET LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268076
- Date first listed:
- 16-Sept-1996
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Jan-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Rooks Nest Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE, FORSET 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:
- ROOKS NEST FARMHOUSE, FORSET 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 92890 71886
Details
ST 97 SW CHIPPENHAM FOREST LANE
Pewsham
930-1/1-268
Rooks Nest Farmhouse
16-09-1996 II
Farmhouse facing north, now a house approached from the rear. C18 and early C19. Incised stucco over brick and some limestone rubble, pantiled roof with moulded and rendered ridge stacks to left of centre and right gable end; C20 roof-lights in north slope. English-bond brick lean-to to the north-west corner.
PLAN: 4-room plan, centre east room is entrance stairhall; with circa early C19 lower rear right dairy wing.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with high attic, 2-window range. Windows are well below the eaves, implying that the roof has been raised. The north facade has 2 horizonal formerly unglazed openings at eaves level to the left, two 6/6-pane sash windows to the 1st floor, and C19 paired 4/4-pane sash windows to the ground-floor left and 3/6-pane sashes flanking the flush 6-panel door and hood on brackets. The 2-storey lean-to to the far right has a staircase rising from the front leading to a planked door close to the angle and an opening to each floor to the front. The west gable end has a decorative bargeboard, a C19 two-light casement window to the attic and a C19 4/4-pane sash window to the 1st floor. The south facade has a right-of-centre front door, formerly the back door, with 6 flush panels under a shallow hood on brackets, close to the angle of the dairy wing (now kitchen). Two 2-light casement windows with small panes to the 1st floor, 2 similar windows with 2 panes to the ground floor flank a C20 glazed lean-to and C20 French windows. The circa early C19 dairy wing to the right has similar windows, a single-storey gabled extension has C20 windows and rebuilt gable-end stack. The east gable end has a C19 lean-to with an extended roof forming a partly-covered courtyard.
INTERIOR: mostly early C19 in character, some fireplaces opened up exposing timber lintels, a white marble chimneypiece to the west room. The room to the right has slate flagged floor and chamfered cross-beams. The ridge-in-notch 7-bay roof has tenoned purlins and some wide elm floor boards.
Listing NGR: ST9289071886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 462258
- 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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