Mr Bevirs's Office
MR BEVIRS'S OFFICE, 141, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300222
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mr Bevirs's Office
- Statutory Address:
- MR BEVIRS'S OFFICE, 141, HIGH STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04118/09
- Rights:
- © Mr Brian Thatcher. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1300222
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Mr Bevirs's Office
- Statutory Address 1:
- MR BEVIRS'S OFFICE, 141, 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.
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:
- MR BEVIRS'S OFFICE, 141, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Wootton Bassett
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 06737 82543
Details
SU 08 SE WOOTTON BASSETT HIGH STREET (south east side) 11/151 No. 141 (Mr Bevirs's Office) 17.1.55
II*
House, now offices. 1700/03 for James Long, solicitor. Ashlar limestone, tiled roof with 2 hipped dormers. 2 storey with cellar and attic. 3 structural bays, 2 gable stacks to rear. Central stair hall with flanking reception rooms and lower rear service rooms. Stone rear wing on left. Facade: 7 window bays, 3 centre broken forward with rounded gable. Even quoins and panelled parapet. Central door up 2 steps, shell canopy on consoles, 6-panelled door. Windows tall 8-pane sashes with old glass in moulded architraves and flat cornices. Bolection moulded architraves to door and side wings with pulvinus and cornices. Central first floor window with round head and archivolt with abaci and key; similar window to attic above within semicircular gable. Lead rainwater pipes. Brick rear facade with C20 timber windows. Interior: Square hall with good well stair towards rear, having alternating turned and tightly twisted balusters. Secondary stair in rear of left space also 1700 with heavy handrail and turned balusters. Full fielded oak panelling to front ground floor rooms and upper left room, all with panelled window reveals. Panelled doors and brass hinges. Early C19 marble fireplaces. Section similar panelling to entrance hall, and shutters. Upper floor right room with painted panelling to rear wall only. Building was once Capital and County Bank.
Listing NGR: SU0673782543
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316832
- 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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