AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS

AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS, 25 AND 25A, ABBEY ROW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1269554
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:: AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS, 25 AND 25A, ABBEY ROW

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Date:: 1999-09-07
Reference:: IOE01/00251/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1269554
Date first listed:: 18-Jan-1949
List Entry Name:: AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS, 25 AND 25A, ABBEY ROW

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:: AVON HOUSE AND ATTACHED WALLS, PIERS AND RAILINGS, 25 AND 25A, ABBEY ROW

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 93146 87368

Details

MALMESBURY

ST9387 ABBEY ROW 758-1/2/2 (North East side) 18/01/49 Nos.25 AND 25A Avon House and attached walls, piers and railings

GV II*

House and attached former carriage house. C17, front range dated 1798 on hopper, carriage house refronted c1830. Limestone ashlar with rubble sides and back, ashlar gable cross-axial stacks and stone slate roof. Late Georgian style. PLAN: single-depth plan with rear right-hand mid C17 wing. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic; 3-window range with left-hand 2-storey 1-window range. A symmetrical front has rusticated quoins, raised frieze, cornice and parapet, with coped gables; doorway with fluted pilasters to a pediment, fanlight and door with 6 raised panels, and raised surrounds to horned plate-glass windows, smaller to second floor. To the left former carriage house has banded ground-floor to a string, and cornice and parapet, a right-hand doorway and C20 door, canted bay with plate-glass sashes, with a 8/12-pane first-floor sash, and c1830 cast-iron tented veranda with a central pedimented railing. Rear elevation has the E wing in 2 sections, the inner 2 storeys and attic, with mullion windows and transoms to ground-floor, a shorter middle gabled W wing with single 3- and 2-light mullion windows, and between a central C18 2-storey outshut with round-arched 6/6-pane stair sash, and a W wing with 6/6-pane sash; dormer with leaded casements. Dated hopper to left-hand end of facade inscribed O/ISM. INTERIOR: details include a stone kitchen fireplace to the cross-axial stack in the E wing, the front range has a central entrance stair hall has a dogleg winder stair with thin column-on-vase balusters and curtail, dado panelling and panelled doors, with a collar truss roof with lapped joints; early C19 architraves to No.25A, which includes a segmental former carriage arch over ground-floor bay. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached gate piers, ashlar dwarf walls with spear-headed railings, formerly with lamp overthrow, to flagged front and E areas.

Listing NGR: ST9315887370

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Legacy System number:: 460663
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.