SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318790
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE
Statutory Address:: SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1318790
Date first listed:: 06-Jul-1987
List Entry Name:: SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE

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:: SUMMER HOUSE TO REAR OF OLD WARDOUR HOUSE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Donhead St. Andrew
National Grid Reference:: ST 93856 26266

Details

DONHEAD ST. ANDREW WARDOUR PARK ST 92 NW (east side)

4/24 Summer house to rear of Old Wardour House

GV II

Summer house, now annexe to house. Late C17. Limestone ashlar, tiled roof. Two-storey, 4-window; sashes. C20 panelled door in round-arched surround with keystone and imposts to left of centre, two 9-pane fixed leaded round-arched windows to right and one to left of door, all with keystones and imposts to architraves, small leaded windows between. Plat band above keystones; four 9-pane sashes in plain architraves with sill band to first floor, moulded cornice to plain blocking course. Left return has large square opening, plat band and one 9-pane sash in plain architrave to first floor, blocking course and gable with coping. Right return has C20 panelled door. Interior not inspected. Attached to right is shell of 2-storey C17 stables with no roof and unglazed mullioned windows. One of a series of buildings built against the south wall of Old Wardour Castle bailey. Possibly the 'Banketting House' built 1687. (DOE Guide - Old Wardour Castle, 1968)

Listing NGR: ST9385626266

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Legacy System number:: 320808
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Old Wardour Castle, (1968)

Legal

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