COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS

COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, COUNTESS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318487
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address:: COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, COUNTESS ROAD

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Date:: 2004-09-09
Reference:: IOE01/11787/28
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318487
Date first listed:: 10-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS
Statutory Address 1:: COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, COUNTESS ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: COUNTESS FARMHOUSE AND FRONT GARDEN WALLS, COUNTESS ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Amesbury
National Grid Reference:: SU 15327 42143

Details

AMESBURY COUNTESS ROAD SU 14 SE (west side)

6/32 Countess Farmhouse and front garden walls (formerly listed as Avondale School)

GV II Farmhouse. Early-mid C17, extended in late C18. Mixed English bond brickwork with tiled roofs. Two storeys and cellar, four structural bays. Two parallel blocks, the rear block earlier and partly refaced. Main elevation on second, c1800 block, of 3 bays. Central 6-panelled door with fanlight, within C19 trellis porch. Tripartite 12-pane sashes to ground floor with gauged brick lintels with keystones and cambered soffits. Nine-pane sashes to first floor. Brick dentilled eaves. Two brick stacks on rear wall, now valley gutter. Earlier rear block has irregular fenestration. Large gable stacks. C19 dairy added on south end, with hipped roof. Interior of earlier block has deep chamfered spine beams and C18 eared fire surround to north end room. Roof of 2 tiers of clasped purlins with cambered collars. Front block has early C19 fireplaces. Front elevation has curved cob walls approximately 2.8m high extended to enclose front garden, and meeting stable-barn block (q.v.) to south at a pedestrian gate.

Listing NGR: SU1532742143

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Legacy System number:: 321343
Legacy System:: LBS

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