20, WEST STREET

20, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283278
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1978
List Entry Name:
20, WEST STREET
Statutory Address:
20, WEST STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1283278
Date first listed:
08-Jun-1978
List Entry Name:
20, WEST STREET
Statutory Address 1:
20, WEST STREET

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
20, WEST STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wilton
National Grid Reference:
SU 09582 31260

Details

1. 5409 WEST STREET (North-East Side) No 20 SU 0931 5/58 II GV 2. Late C18 front to circa 1600-1625 house. 2 storeys stuccoed with slight set back side pilasters. Projecting plinth. 3 irregularly spaced windows on 1st floor, glazing bar sashes with voussoir lintels. 2 modern glazing bar shop windows on ground floor, left hand tripartite with 2-5-2x3 panes and right hand 6x3 panes. Left hand doorway retains voussoir lintel. Return to Crow Lane: large gable end stone chimney stack on moulded corbelling over ground floor, (with dormered gable) and weathered capping. Extending north-east is a 2 storey circa 1650ish wing, presumably once jettied (ground floor is C19 brick); the 1st floor timber framed with 2 wide braced bays and early C19 oriel bays with glazing bar casements and cornices. Wide eaves. On ground floor, a 3-light segmental headed casement to left, central window with part of an earlier doorway with cornice and 3-pane overlight, and ledged door to right. Garden wall to left: about 7 ft high, 20 yds long, built of large rubble with brick lacing courses; segmental headed doorway adjacent to house. Interior: front room and hall now one; remains of moulded Jacobean panelling (rest removed to No 39 West Street qv); ceiling moulding; part of panelling to right obscures older fireplace; late C18 segmental hall arch adjacent. Timber braces in fireplace wall. Fire Insurance Mark 322563.

Listing NGR: SU0959031260

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
319336
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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