Willesley House
WILLESLEY HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355983
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Willesley House
- Statutory Address:
- WILLESLEY HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1355983
- Date first listed:
- 12-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Willesley House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLESLEY HOUSE
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:
- WILLESLEY HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sherston
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85265 88743
Details
SHERSTON WILLESLEY, Tetbury ST 88 NE 3/146 Willesley House 12.12.51 II
Country house. Probable late C16 origin (1583 date on internal lintel) with late C17, C18 and C19 alterations and additions; in the course of extensive renovation at time of resurvey (June 1986). Coursed rubble with flush rusticated dressed stone quoins, stone dressings and stone slate roofs with stone stacks. U-shaped plan: central core range with late C17 refronting and end wings to south, three C19 wings to north. South front of 3 elements: central 2- storey, 4-window section with advanced single-storey, 1-window bay to right and blank gable end of wing to left with lateral stack. Windows are late C19 small pane wooden cross-mullions in C17 moulded stone surrounds. Ground floor window to right-hand bay has larger similar window. Central bolection-moulded doorway with glazed C20 door. First floor string course, bolection-moulded cornice, hipped roof to advanced bay to right and 1 hipped dormer. East end wall of core range has chamfered mullioned fenestration with hoodmoulds. Interior. Ground floor room to left has fine marble C18 chimney- piece with carved brackets and central panel with rural scene; C18 staircase with plain balusters and mahogany handrail in central passage with dated lintel.
Listing NGR: ST8526588743
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 318143
- 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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