Culver House
15-23, INGRAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269487
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Culver House
- Statutory Address:
- 15-23, INGRAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269487
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jul-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Culver House
- Statutory Address 1:
- 15-23, INGRAM STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CULVER HOUSE, 15-21, CULVER GARDENS
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:
- 15-23, INGRAM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CULVER HOUSE, 15-21, CULVER GARDENS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Malmesbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93476 86995
Details
MALMESBURY
ST9387 CULVER GARDENS 758-1/2/66 Nos.15-21 (Odd) 18/01/49 Culver House
GV II*
House, now divided into 3. Mid C16 with C16-C17 NE range, divided mid C19, and C20 SW extension. Coursed limestone rubble with dressings, incorporating reused ashlar and carved work, ashlar cross axial stack and 2 E gable stacks and interlocking tile cross-gabled roof. PLAN: 2-room plan with single-depth NE range. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 2-window range. Paired cross gables to both sides and gabled ends, with a central cross-axial stack, the original doorway replaced by late C18 round-arched doorway below the SW gable; 2-light mullion window with cavetto mouldings and metal casements and label moulds to first-floor and N gable attic; later NE range has a long blocked first-floor mullion window with splayed jambs and oak lintel, on the N elevation a garderobe loop at first-floor level. Later windows with oak lintels, and E elevation with early C19 segmental-arched openings. NE range 1-storey and attic; 2-windows has a round-arched doorway with keyed surround, fanlight and boarded door, and segmental-arched openings; rear has original C16/17 3-light mullion window with reserved mullions and label moulds and 2 gabled dormers. Blocked later windows with timber lintels. INTERIOR: details include a collar truss roof, central fireplace with heavy bressumer, a winder stair with carved newel to the E side, chamfered, stopped ceiling beams, steps down to cellar former kitchen with kitchen fireplace with dressed jambs and lintel, door to steps from re-used plank and muntin panelling with original ironwork. The NE range includes chamfered ceiling beams and salt niche beside fireplace. HISTORICAL NOTE: the S face lies along the former town wall; re-used ashlar is a feature of post-dissolution work in Malmesbury. Reputed to be the residence of Parliamentary Military Governor Col. Nicholas Devereux, from 1644-6; late the home of the notorious Dr Edmund Wilkins, Alderman and from 1775 High Steward of the Old Corporation.
Listing NGR: ST9347686995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460728
- 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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