MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE)

MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE), WEST AMESBURY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318496
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE)
Statutory Address:: MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE), WEST AMESBURY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318496
Date first listed:: 09-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:: MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE)
Statutory Address 1:: MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE), WEST AMESBURY

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:: MERION COTTAGE AND ATTACHED COTTAGE TO EAST (THE CHALKHOUSE COTTAGE), WEST AMESBURY

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 14157 41466

Details

AMESBURY WEST AMESBURY SU 1541 (west side)

11/78 Merion Cottage and attached cottage to east (The Chalkhouse Cottage)

GV II Row of 4 or 5 cottages, now two dwellings. C18 and C19. Chalk block laced and quoined in brick, extended in chalk, flint and brick. Thatched roof. Single storey and attic. Original section is of four bays, sill and 2 bands of four brick courses, and raised from 1 to 1 storey and attic in header bond brickwork. A half bay containing main stack at left end, with flint lacings, and extended twice to left, probably late C18 or early C19, now Merion Cottage. C20 panelled and studded oak door in opening with cambered half-brick arch and a similar door in right end, now replaced by window. Timber 2-light windows with applied leading in similar brick openings. Seven flush dormers with brick cheeks. Merion Cottage has C20 panelled door. Four brick stacks. Roof half-hipped to left.

Listing NGR: SU1415741466

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Legacy System number:: 321390
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.