Callas Hill Farmhouse Including Garden Area Railings, Piers and Gate Adjoining South West

CALLAS HILL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN AREA RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATE ADJOINING SOUTH WEST, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1355886
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:
Callas Hill Farmhouse Including Garden Area Railings, Piers and Gate Adjoining South West
Statutory Address:
CALLAS HILL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN AREA RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATE ADJOINING SOUTH WEST, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1355886
Date first listed:
27-Apr-1990
List Entry Name:
Callas Hill Farmhouse Including Garden Area Railings, Piers and Gate Adjoining South West
Statutory Address 1:
CALLAS HILL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN AREA RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATE ADJOINING SOUTH WEST, HIGH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CALLAS HILL FARMHOUSE INCLUDING GARDEN AREA RAILINGS, PIERS AND GATE ADJOINING SOUTH WEST, HIGH STREET

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

District:
Swindon (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Wanborough
National Grid Reference:
SU 21417 83244

Details

SU 2183 WANBOROUGH HIGH STREET Lower Wanborough

24/506 Callas Hill Farmhouse including garden area railings, piers and gate adjoining south west

the description shall be amended to read:

House, formerly farmhouse. C18, possibly with earlier fabric, extended in circa early C19. Stone rubble with red brick Flemish bond front with burnt headers. Tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Brick stacks at gable ends. Plan: 2-room plan with straight stairs and lobby between the two rooms which are both heated from gable end stacks, behind the left hand room an integral unheated outshut. In circa early C19 a 2-storey 1-room plan addition was built at the right end. Small cottage or converted outbuilding at right angles in front of right hand end, now linked to house by outshut. Exterior: 2-storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-window south east front. C20 3-light and central 2-light casements with glazing bars on first floor in openings with flat brick arches. Two large C20 bay windows on ground floor and central panelled door, top panels glazed, with canopy. Two small C20 flat roof dormers. Outshut on right forms link to converted outbuilding or cottage at right angles to main house; also Flemish bond brick with burnt headers, tile roof with hipped and gabled ends, 2-storeys, 2 window front with 2-light casements and doorway converted into a window. Stone rubble rear elevation of main house, its roof carried down as cat-slide over single storey outshut on right; various casements and small bay window on ground floor. C19 12-pane sashes on north east end. South west gable end facing road has doorway with C19 ornate cast-iron porch and sash about with glazing bars. Including railings, piers and gate to small garden area at south west end; C19 rusticated stone piers with moulded caps, short section of railings on north west side and cast-iron pedestrian gate on south east side. Interior: Early C19 plank and panelled doors with HL hinges; collar-truss roof with butt purlins.

The list was previously amended in respect of this entry on 27 April 1990.

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SU 2183 WANBOROUGH HIGH STREET Lower wanborough 24/506 Callas Hill Farmhouse including garden area railings, piers and gate adjoining south west II House, formerly farmhouse. C18, possibly with earlier fabric, extended in circa early C19. Stone rubble with red brick Flemish bond front with burnt headers. Tile roof with gabled and half-hipped ends. Brick stacks at gable ends. Plan: 2-room plan with straight stairs and lobby between the two rooms which are both heated from gable end stacks, behind the left hand room an integral unheated outshut. In circa early C19 a 2-storey l-room plan addition was built at the right end. Small cottage or converted outbuilding at right angles in front of right hand end, now linked to house by outshut. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-window south east front. C20 3-light and central 2-light casements with glazing bars on first floor in openings with flat brick arches. Two large C20 bay windowson ground floor and central panelled door, top panels glazed, with canopy. Two small C20 flat roof dormers. Outshut on right forms link to converted outbuilding or cottage at right angles to main house; also Flemish bond brick with burnt headers, tile roof with hipped and gabled ends, 2-storeys, 2 window front with 2-light casement and doorway converted into a window. Stone rubble rear elevation of main house , its roof carried down as cat- slide over single storey outshut on right; various casements and small bay window on ground floor. C19 12-pane sashes on north east end. South west gable and facing road has doorway with C19 ornate cast-iron porch and sash about with glazing bars. Including railings, piers and gate to small garden area at south west end; C19 rusticated stone piers with moulded caps, short section of railings on north west side and cast-iron pedestrian gate on south east side. Interior: not inspected but chamfered cross-beams were observed.

Listing NGR: SU2141783244

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
318658
Legacy System:
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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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