Long Close House
LONG CLOSE HOUSE, LONG CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355692
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Long Close House
- Statutory Address:
- LONG CLOSE HOUSE, LONG CLOSE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/05391/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355692
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Long Close House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONG CLOSE HOUSE, LONG CLOSE
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:
- LONG CLOSE HOUSE, LONG CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Downton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 17211 21573
Details
DOWNTON LONG CLOSE SU 1721 (south side) 5/105 Long Close House 23/3/60
II
Detached house. Mid C17, north addition c.1840, south side rebuilt c.1890. Plastered chalk, English bond brick to rear, Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. C17 range with paralled C19 addition and bay to east. 2-storey, 5 window front. 6-panelled door in panelled reveals with fanlight and porch to left, to left is 3-light 8-pane sash with keystone, to either side is single 8-pane sash and to right are two 3-light sashes and a 6-panelled door in beaded case with flat wooden hood on cast-iron brackets. Facade divided by pilasters and plat band to first floor. First floor has three 2- light casements and a single 4-pane sash and a pair of sashes. Left return has fixed window to first floor. Rear is in English bond brick, three 2-storey canted bays with segmental-headed sashes and hipped slate roofs, between are 2-light casements and 16-pane flush sashes. Interior has good mid C19 stairs in front extension with barley- twist carved balusters, wood panelled ceiling. Rear range has chamfered beams with ogee and jewelled stops. Reset early C17 fireplace surround in east room had arabesque carving, probably from the Market Place, Salisbury. First floor has some partly exposed timber-framed partition. Attached to east gable is late C19 glass conservatory with round-arched leaded windows, fan-laid mosaic floor and cresting to roof; by Messenger and Company of Loughborough, named on door handle. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)
Listing NGR: SU1721121573
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319664
- 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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