Rose and Unicorn House
ROSE AND UNICORN HOUSE, 11
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283446
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rose and Unicorn House
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE AND UNICORN HOUSE, 11
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08717/06
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283446
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Rose and Unicorn House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE AND UNICORN HOUSE, 11
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:
- ROSE AND UNICORN HOUSE, 11
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Corsham
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 88672 70526
Details
CORSHAM WESTROP ST 87 SE 1/395 No. 11 (Rose and Unicorn House) GV II
House, C17 and C18, rubble stone with stone-tiled roof, ridge and south end stacks and coped south gable. Two storeys, 'L'-plan. West front 4-window range, formerly 2 cottages, coved eaves cornice, 4 first floor 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows and hoodmoulds. Ground floor door to left with hood on brackets, single light and 12-pane window in moulded surround, then door in moulded architrave with pediment on brackets and two 3- light mullion windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, one ovolo-moulded, one recessed cyma-moulded. Rear has straight joint between two sections. Left section has flush cornerstones, off- centre curved stair tower with stone-tiled roof reaching into a gable, one window range of 3-light windows to left, ovolo-moulded above, recessed cyma-moulded with relieving arch below, both with hoodmoulds, and, to right, 2-light ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould over door with hood on brackets. Section to right has one ground floor 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window and hoodmould. Rear wing, probably C18, has south side door to left and 2-window range of flush cyma-moulded 2-light windows with dripstones. East end stack and bread oven. Interior: north half of front range has south end massive timber- lintel to Tudor-arched fireplace and chamfered spine beam. South half has bolection-moulded stone fireplace with shelf and fielded panelling to dado level. Walls here and above are stamped with cross motif of central rose and four unicorns. Upstairs south end Tudor-arched fireplace with fluted frieze and stone shelf. House is said to date from 1648.
Listing NGR: ST8867270526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315423
- 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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