Apshill House
APSHILL HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318814
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Apshill House
- Statutory Address:
- APSHILL HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1318814
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Apshill House
- Statutory Address 1:
- APSHILL HOUSE
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:
- APSHILL HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Mandeville
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 97577 29419
Details
TISBURY LOWER CHICKSGROVE ST 92 NE (off east side)
5/257 Apshill House
GV II
Farmhouse, now detached house. Late C14, altered c1600, c1700 and C20. Rubble stone, possibly originally timber framed, tiled roof with stone and brick stacks. L-plan, 3-bay hall house with 2-bay open hall. Single-storey and attic, 3-windows. C20 door and steel casement to left, 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with dripstone and 3-light steel casement to right. Gabled C20 dormer to left. Right return has steel casements. Rear has C20 door to right, 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with dripstone and steel casement in blocked doorway to left, full gabled attic dormer with 3-light mullioned casement and coped verge. To rear right is 2 storey wing of c1700 with 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements and blocked doorway, rear of wing has 3-light and 2-light mullioned casements, some with leaded lights. Interior retains fine deep arch-braced collar truss to former open hall, particularly good chamfered ogee cusping to arch-brace, principals and collar are hollow-chamfered, 2 bays either side of this truss have smoke-blackened timbers. The north solar bay separated by former closed truss. Floor and stone stack inserted late C16; deep chamfered ceiling beam and exposed joists, open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs to chamfered lintel with curved corners. Rear wing has chamfered beams with runout stops, bolection-moulded stone fireplace from ground floor reset in C19 south bay in 1950s. An unusual survival of a hall house, probably the house of an important freeholder, also the property of the Abbess of Shaftesbury. (R. Colt Hoare, Modern History of Wiltshire, 1829)
Listing NGR: ST9757729419
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321047
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colt Hoare, R, The History of Modern Wiltshire in The History of Modern Wiltshire, (1829)
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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