20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363754
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
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- Date:
- 2005-04-27
- Reference:
- IOE01/13565/27
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363754
- Date first listed:
- 25-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- 20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
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:
- 20 AND 21, COMPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilmarton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 02059 75108
Details
HILMARTON COMPTON ROAD SU 07 NW (east side) 6/251 Nos 20 and 21 GV II Pair of estate cottages, dated 1875 for W.H. Poynder, by Henry Weaver, rock-faced squared rubble stone with fishscale banded tile roof surviving on No 20, concrete plain tiles to No 21. Stone stacks. Two T-plan cottages joined back-to-side. Coped gables, hoodmoulded stone mullion windows with shouldered heads to lights and decorative hexagonal lattice cast-iron glazing. No 21, facing west has symmetrical front with north stack, one 2-light window each side of projecting porch gable with single light over shouldered-headed doorway with hoodmould and lozenge-shaped stops. Date plaque over. Two-light each floor to south end wall. No 20, facing south has identical projecting porch gable, 2-light to ground floor right, 3-light to ground floor left with single light over in coped dormer gable, east end stack and ridge stack at west end. Corresponds to Plate 6, design for cottages near Beversbrook, in Henry Weaver's Hints on Cottage Architecture 1848.
Listing NGR: SU0206575103
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316378
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weaver, H, Hints on Cottage Architecture, (1848)
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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