24, HIGH STREET

24, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1299927
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:
24, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
24, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1299927
Date first listed:
26-Jan-1955
List Entry Name:
24, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:
24, HIGH 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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
24, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Highworth
National Grid Reference:
SU 20077 92443

Details

1. 5410 HIGHWORTH HIGH STREET (south side) No 24 SU 2092 SW 18/286 26.1.55

II* GV

2. Early C18. A fine town house. Called Inigo House and wrongly attributed to Sir Roger Pratt. Three storeys and basement. Four bays. Purple brick with red brick window dressings and rubbed brick segmental arches to windows, aprons, and 5 course bands over floors. Stone chamfered quoins, plinth, moulded cornice, keystones and coping to panelled parapet. Cornice breaks forward over quoins and keys. Flush moulded frames to glazing bar sash windows. Fine doorway to right of centre: wide stucco surround with fluted corinthian pilasters and broken back segmental pediment. Segmental headed 10 panel door with foliate key over. Two rainwater pipes with conical heads. Phoenix Fire Insurance Mark. Flat leaded roof. Two storey rear extension with 4 cross mullion windows and stone slate roof. Railings to front with urn-capped standards. Interior: entrance hall altered. Raised and fielded panelling in front room. Fine staircase with fluted balusters, sweeping handrail, panelled dado. Panelled doom. Pratt attribution the result of the proximity to Coleshill.

Listing NGR: SU2008092437

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
318405
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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