Devilstone Wall and Garden Walls to North at Parsonage Farmhouse
DEVILSTONE WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO NORTH AT PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355972
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Devilstone Wall and Garden Walls to North at Parsonage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- DEVILSTONE WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO NORTH AT PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355972
- Date first listed:
- 20-Sept-1979
- List Entry Name:
- Devilstone Wall and Garden Walls to North at Parsonage Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- DEVILSTONE WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO NORTH AT PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH 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.
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:
- DEVILSTONE WALL AND GARDEN WALLS TO NORTH AT PARSONAGE FARMHOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Swindon (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chiseldon
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18682 79931
Details
1. 5410 CHISELDON CHURCH STREET (north side) "Devilstone" wall and garden walls to north at Parsonage Farmhouse SU 1879 29/156A
II
2. Probably C18 and early C19; a rubble retaining wall about 5-6 ft high and about 5 yds long meeting the house at its south-west corner. In one of its quoins is set a crude relief figure locally known as "The Devil Stone". The garden walls appear to be C18, brick, partly (to east) on rubble retaining wall, to churchyard. About 5-6 ft high. Moulded stone coping. Ramped down on north side. North wall about 30 yds long, east wall about 40 yds and short return to south about 10 yds long.
Listing NGR: SU1868279931
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318292
- 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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