CHEYNEY COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1285230
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHEYNEY COURT
Statutory Address:: CHEYNEY COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1285230
Date first listed:: 20-Dec-1960
List Entry Name:: CHEYNEY COURT
Statutory Address 1:: CHEYNEY COURT

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHEYNEY COURT

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Box
National Grid Reference:: ST 81637 69410

Details

ST 86 NW BOX DITTERIDGE

2/122 Cheyney Court

20 12 60 GV II*

House, early to mid C17, roughcast rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, 3 paired circular-shafted ridge stacks, 2 on axis, one cross-axial and 2 large north end wall stacks each with 4 circular shafts. Basement and two and a half storeys. Flush quoins. Moulded coped gables with polyhedral finials, 3 gables to east and west, 2 to south. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows. All windows have C20 plastic glazing bars. West front has 2-light attic windows with hoodmoulds to gables and seven-window range below. First floor has 2 outer 2-light mullion-and-transom stair lights each side in stepped arrangement with continuous dripcourse stepped up over outer stair light. In centre 3-2-3 window arrangement with dripcourse stepped over. Ground floor has outer 2-light mullion-and-transom window each side with dripcourse stepped over, central studded plank door in moulded shouldered architrave with carved Speke crest over and open curved pediment on ornate carved brackets. 3-light window each side and 2-light window adjoining stair lights. Right side 2-light window is set lower. Balustraded stone steps up to front door. To left, three 2-light basement windows under dripcourse, 2 original, to right, one 2-light basement window with hoodmould. South front has similar attic and 5-window range with dripcourses stepped over mullion-and-transom lights to outer bays on both main floors. Three 2-light centre windows on first floor, 2 to ground floor flanking central gabled stone-tiled projecting porch with door in moulded shouldered architrave with pulvinated frieze, cornice and shell hood over. Balustraded stone steps up. Basement storey below with hollow-moulded 2-light windows. East front has similar attic windows and asymmetrical window arrangement to main floors. Five-window range of 2-light windows under centre and left gable with dripcourse stepped up at south-east corner. Under right gable second floor off-centre 3-light window at higher level with dripcourse stepped over, first floor large C20 five-light casement with top-lights, hoodmould to right suggests previous window as on floor above. Below, 3-light window with hoodmould, blocked door to left with hood on brackets and 2 small square overlights with hoodmould. Full-height basement storey to left, C20 three-light window, 2 hollow-moulded 2-light windows and door in flush moulded surround. Attached to north end is one and a half storey rubble stone range with coped north gable. East side has 2 dormer gables with 2-light recessed cyma-moulded windows and hoodmoulds over C20 3-light window, door and 2-light window, then straight joint to earlier north end section with flush quoins, one dormer gable with 2-light ovolo-moulded window, chamfered doorcase and C20 2-light window. On west side, similar straight joint and flush quoins. Section to right has dormer gable, first floor moulded single light and 2 ground floor 2-light windows with hoodmoulds, one original, one C20. Section to left has dormer gable, first floor moulded single light and dripstone, ground floor 3-light window and hoodmould and door to left at higher level. Interior: mostly early to mid C17 but lower floor on east side probably earlier with moulded elliptical arched north and firelace rind arched recesses. West front hall has fine fireplace with high shelf on moulded consoles and raised centre panel over fireplace. South-west open well stair with closed string, moulded rail and carved arched balustrade. Original gate at foot of stairs. Simpler dog-leg stair at north end of main range with acorn finials to newels and column balusters. Exceptional stone fireplace in first floor south-east room with Ionic fluted pilasters, large consoles to moulded stone shelf and foliate scroll decoration under shelf. Over shelf is frieze with centre arms of George Speke and Margaret Tempest flanked by cherubs and cornucopias with festoons each side, lion masks over and top modillion cornice. House recorded as manor of Cheyney family in C15 but rebuilt for George Speke, died 1656. Owned by the Northey family in C18 and C19. (G.J.Kidston: A History of the Manor of Hazelbury, 1936, 198.)

Listing NGR: ST8163769410

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 316984
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Kidston, G J, A History of the Manor of Hazelbury, (1936), 198

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.