Masonic Hall
MASONIC HALL, 17, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270901
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Hall
- Statutory Address:
- MASONIC HALL, 17, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270901
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Masonic Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- MASONIC HALL, 17, THE GREEN
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:
- MASONIC HALL, 17, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Calne
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 99990 70741
Details
CALNE
ST9970 THE GREEN 755-1/5/171 (South side) No.17 Masonic Hall
GV II
Masonic hall, formerly a school and technical college. Dated 1894. Rough limestone ashlar with fine ashlar dressings and quoins; slate roof, ashlar stacks with cornices to gable ends. L-shaped plan. Stripped Jacobean style. 2 storeys; 3-window range. Large windows with label moulds are stone-mullioned and transomed with 2 panes over 4 panes to each light. To first-floor left is a 4-light window with 2 two-light windows to the right. Three 2-light windows to the ground floor and the left-of-centre door are under a continuous label mould. Double 3-panel doors have a segmental-arched overlight in a pulvinated architrave with datestone above. INTERIOR: ceilings are approx 4m high and doors are large, 6-panels with bolection moulding. The large open-well closed-string staircase to the rear left has turned balusters and chamfered and moulded newels. The Masonic Hall to the first floor has tongued-and-grooved panelling below a high dado rail. HISTORICAL NOTE: Bentley's school was founded in 1663 under his will of 29 September 1660. After many organizational disasters the Charity Commission re-organized the school and in 1901 amalgamated it with the Technical Institute which had been established in 1894 at a cost of »1,500. Prominently sited in The Green, having group value with a fine group of listed buildings. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: ST9999070741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 456910
- 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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