NUMBERS 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE)
1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE), HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355951
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE)
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE), HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1355951
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1955
- List Entry Name:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE)
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE), HIGH STREET
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:
- 1 AND 2 (THE OLD MANOR HOUSE), HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Highworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SU2024892453
Details
18/267
HIGHWORTH
HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 1 & 2 (The Old Manor House)
Part 1 of the item shall include the previous listing data 26.1.55
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1.
5410
SU 2092 SW
18/267
HIGHWORTH
HIGH STREET
(South Side)
Nos 1 and 2 (The old Manor House)
II*
GV
2.
Dated 1656. Recasting of much older house thought to incorporate retrains
of a C15 hall. Two storeys, coursed rubble with stone slate roof of steep
pitch. Chimney to left hand gable renewed, moulded capping. Two 4 light
mullion windows with drips on first floor and central datestone panel with
carved axe and "BIS.1656".
Ground floor altered for late C191early C20 shop front. Central entrance
and flanking windows, house door to right, all under drip, with brick piers
and quoins and moulded stops to chamfers on fascia. Rough stone fascia.
Gable end to east shews a bressumer end.
Interior: large Tudor arch fireplace on ground floor and a small one on first
floor, mid C17. Moulded plank and muntin partition to first floor. Caricole
stair to right of ground floor fireplace.
Listing NGR: SU2024892453
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318386
- 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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