4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE

4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286126
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE
Statutory Address:
4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE
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Date:
1999-08-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1286126
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1950
List Entry Name:
4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE
Statutory Address 1:
4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:
4 AND 6, CANON SQUARE

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Melksham
National Grid Reference:
ST9031563821

Details

ST 9063 MELKSHAM CANON SQUARE
(north side)

7/22 No 4 and No 6

29.9.50

GV II

Pair of attached cottages. Circa C16 to late C18. Rubblestone,
double Roman tiled roof, brick stacks. 2-storeys, 3-windows. No 4
has 6-panelled beaded door in staff moulded case with flat stone
hood on brackets, to left is pair of 12-pane sashes in plain stone
case with central mullion. No 6 has C20 door and pair of 12-pane
sashes in plain stone case with central mullion. First floor has
two 12-pane sashes and one C20 window in plain stone cases. Left
return has C19 lean-to and 3-light casement to first floor.
Interior not inspected but contains a pair of cruck trusses,
recorded and exposed during renovation; evidence of a building of
cC16. (Unpublished material of Wiltshire Buildings Record).


Listing NGR: ST9031563821

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
314240
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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