Crowdown
CROWDOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363878
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crowdown
- Statutory Address:
- CROWDOWN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363878
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Crowdown
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROWDOWN
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:
- CROWDOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Grittleton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 87492 79804
Details
GRITTLETON EAST FOSCOTE
ST 87 NE
7/5 Crowdown
II
Estate cottage of Grittleton estate, c1840 by J. Thomson for Joseph Neeld. Rubble stone with squared ashlar block to south front, stone slate eaves roof. 1½ storeys. South front has exceedingly tall and thin 5-stage ashlar octagonal tower at south west angle with moulded plinth and dripcourses with uncarved bosses at angles. Top stage has arcading with column shafts, with windows on cardinal faces, blank elsewhere and corbelled parapet. House is T-plan with tower at south west angle of west wing which has hipped roof and 2- shaft rear stack. Front has single light in eaves-breaking dormer gable over door in depressed-arched surround set in broad ashlar porch between tower and gabled south end of main range. Stepped parapet with shield over moulded depressed-arched entry. Stone seats within. Moulded plinth and string course. South end of main range has ground-floor 3-light canted ashlar bay with stone roof and first floor single light. Two-window east side has 4-shaft ridge stack, rubble stone walls and plain mullion windows, the upper windows under eaves breaking dormers. Door at right end in gabled stone porch. Tower, similar to but taller than the one at Fosse Lodge (q.v.) is variously said to have been an observation tower for following the hunt and a telegraph tower.
Listing NGR: ST8749279804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315816
- 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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