Heywood House
HEYWOOD HOUSE, HEYWOOD PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284971
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Heywood House
- Statutory Address:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE, HEYWOOD PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1284971
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Heywood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE, HEYWOOD PARK
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:
- HEYWOOD HOUSE, HEYWOOD PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Heywood
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87582 53461
Details
HEYWOOD HEYWOOD PARK ST 85 SE (north side) 4/189 Heywood House GV II* Country house, now offices. 1837 on site of earlier house by Harvey Eginton of Worcester for H.G.G. Ludlow. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate roof with octagonal ashlar stacks. Jacobean style in E-plan. Two-storey and attics, 5-window front. Central 2-storey porch with Tudor-arched openings and hoodmoulds, first floor oriel with open parapet, shaped gable, unusual free-standing octagonal 'minarets' and square clock tower behind gable, bays either side have 6-light mullioned and transomed casements to ground and first floors, flanking wings have 2-storey canted bays with 4-light mullioned and transom windows with open parapet, 3-light attic mullioned windows in shaped gables with corner stacks. Right return has square porch, various ovolo-moulded mullioned casements, group of four large stacks to left. Left return has large external stack with offsets, similar windows. Rear has single- storey service range to left matched by single-storey billiard room to right, linked to main range by corridor with Tudor-arched doorway and cross windows with leaded lights, west end of billiard room has ribbed doors and 3-light Tudor arched window, front has mullioned and transomed windows. Centre of main range to rear has gabled stair turret with oriel window, cross windows either side, shaped attic gables. Interior: Plaque recording building of house inside porch. Fine interior retains high quality original fittings; large central hall with C17-style stone fireplace with strapwork overmantel and Doric columns to entablature, rib-panelled ceiling, Tudor-arched opening with cusped spandrels leading to rear stair hall - early C18 style open-well stairs with barleysugar balusters, carved tread ends, with ribbed ceiling. South west room has good gilded strapwork-decorated plaster ceiling and matching fitted cupboards. Former dining room in south east corner has reset C17 panelling with strapwork carving. Billiard room has 5-bay arch-braced collar truss roof. Good joinery throughout house; 8-panelled doors in moulded architraves with attached shafts to ground floor, some Tudor-arched doors with cusped panels. Back stairs in C18- style slightly altered to accommodate fire precautions. Conservatory attached to left, timber and cast-iron on ashlar plinth with missing glazing, cast-iron ridge cresting to hipped roof. (The Builder, 1849, Vol 101)
Listing NGR: ST8758253461
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Builder in The Builder, Vol. 101, (1849)
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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