Bishop's Cottage
BISHOP'S COTTAGE, WYNDHAM LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355674
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOP'S COTTAGE, WYNDHAM LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355674
- Date first listed:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bishop's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOP'S COTTAGE, WYNDHAM LANE
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:
- BISHOP'S COTTAGE, WYNDHAM LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Allington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 20421 39516
Details
ALLINGTON WYNDHAM LANE SU 23 NW (north-east side) 4/18 Bishop's Cottage II
Farmhouse now house. Late C18 on site of earlier building destroyed by fire. Colourwashed flint with brick quoins and banding on a brick sill. Thatched roof. Two storeys, 3 bays. Central door replaced by window, all windows C19 paired casements within segmental headed openings. Boarded door in lean-to on left, enclosed in glass porch. Offsetting brick courses at eaves. Gable stacks. Continuous lean-to at rear, formerly dairy, and rear wing on left now containing kitchen. Interior altered, original kitchen probably in left bay fireplace. Spine beam to living room. Wattle and daub partitions on first floor. Original stair was in outshut. Building was built by a Richard Bishop, bricklayer, who acquired the site in 1789 and sold the house in 1804. (R.C.H.M. Survey)
Listing NGR: SU2042139516
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319916
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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