CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS

CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS, 28, CROSS HAYES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1269514
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:: CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS
Statutory Address:: CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS, 28, CROSS HAYES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1269514
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:: CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS, 28, CROSS HAYES

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CROSS HAYES HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALL, RAILINGS AND GATE POSTS, 28, CROSS HAYES

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 93416 87123

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 CROSS HAYES 758-1/4/48 (East side) 18/01/49 No.28 Cross Hayes House and attached wall, railings and gate posts

GV II*

House. Dated 1728 on hopper, extended late C18 and early C19. Limestone ashlar and rubble, brick gable stacks and stone slate roof with rear cross gables. STYLE: early Georgian. PLAN: T-shaped double-depth plan with rear SE infill extension. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, attic and cellar; 4-window range. A symmetrical 3-window front has banded pilaster strips, first-floor string, cornice and parapet, with coped end gables; openings have moulded surrounds and segmental head. Doorway with scrolled brackets to a flat canopy, good rectangular overlight with a lantern and a 6-panel door with glazed top panels. Keyed architraves to 6/6-pane sashes, and 2 gabled dormers with C20 casements. The right return has a foundation stone inscribed WC 1728, and a dated lead hopper. The 1-window extension to the right has a doorway and first-floor 6/6-pane sash beneath half a gable. In front is a single-storey screen wall with round-arched recess containing an inserted doorway. Rear elevation has 2 gables, larger to the left, behind a cornice and parapet, a central late C18 semi-circular full-height bay with three 6/6-pane sashes to each floor; the SE extension has a full-height mid C18 canted bay with ground-floor Venetian window with an elliptical-arched head and 8/12-pane sash, 8/8-pane sashes to the sides and above; the gables each contain round-arched windows. INTERIOR: fine original details include a central lateral open well dogleg stair with curtail, column-on-vase balusters and a moulded ramped rail; downstairs panelled rooms with moulded cornices and ceiling beams, rear eared fire surround; 4- and 6-panel doors and panelled shutters; decorative fireplaces; vaulted cellars. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached brick ramped walls enclose front area with spear-headed railings and cast-iron gate posts, formerly with urns; attached railings to rear garden. A very fine town house making a prominent feature in the townscape.

Listing NGR: ST9342087123

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Legacy System number:: 460711
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.