Little Lypiatt Farmhouse

LITTLE LYPIATT FARMHOUSE, ROUGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363950
Date first listed:
01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Little Lypiatt Farmhouse
Statutory Address:
LITTLE LYPIATT FARMHOUSE, ROUGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1363950
Date first listed:
01-Aug-1986
List Entry Name:
Little Lypiatt Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE LYPIATT FARMHOUSE, ROUGH 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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE LYPIATT FARMHOUSE, ROUGH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Corsham
National Grid Reference:
ST 87049 68790

Details

CORSHAM ROUGH STREET, ST 86 NE Lypiatt 3/365 Little Lypiatt Farmhouse II

Farmhouse, C17 and early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. 'L'-plan. Two storeys and attic. Garden front has east end wall stack and west wall-face stack, 4-window range with 2 dormers flanking dormer gable with datestone CC 1674 and 3-light recessed cyma-moulded window with hoodmould. Recessed cyma-moulded first floor windows, 3-light to left, two 2-light to right and 3-light with hoodmould and datestone WC 1674 at landing level under dormer gable. Three ground floor 2-light recessed chamfered windows with hoodmoulds, possibly earlier C17. West end wall has attic single light and first floor 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window. Rear wing has one ground floor 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould to west, north end stack and east front earlier C18 two storey, 2-window range of 12-pane sashes in raised moulded surrounds with moulded band and coved eaves cornice. One ground floor window obscured by early C20 two storey canted addition in angle. East end converted stable and loft range with 2 upper C18 flush cyma-moulded windows and 3 lower C19 or early C20 sashes, one in blocked central opening. Two end wall stacks on rear slope. Little Lypiatt was held by the Lypiatt family from early C14, passed to the Keynes family in C15, to J. Thrift 1603, W. Gibbons in later C17 and to the Hulbert family who held it from 1696 to the mid C19. (H. Brakspear, Corsham, 19 27-8).

Listing NGR: ST8693468411

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
315393
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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Brakspear, H, Corsham, (), 27-8

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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