GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE

GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318467
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE
Statutory Address:: GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318467
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE
Statutory Address 1:: GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE, HIGH STREET

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

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:: GATE PIERS AND WALL BETWEEN STOURTON CLUB AND THE SPREAD EAGLE, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stourton with Gasper
National Grid Reference:: ST 77652 34006

Details

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (south side) 6/133 Gate piers and wall between Stourton Club and The Spread Eagle GV II Wall and gate piers attached to inn and club. Circa 1815 for Richard Colt Hoare. Dressed limestone square piers with cut rebates to courtyard side, plain stepped cappings with carved stone eagles' heads, attached walls with swept weathered coping up to inn on west side and club on east. Colt Hoare changed the name of the inn from Stourton Inn to The Spread Eagle, the Hoare's family crest, in 1815, the piers and walls with the eagles' heads were added at the same time. (Stourhead Annals)

Listing NGR: ST7765234006

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 321239
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Stourhead Annals' in Stourhead Annals, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

Legal

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