THE GROVE

THE GROVE, 407 AND 408 THE SPA

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364120
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: THE GROVE
Statutory Address:: THE GROVE, 407 AND 408 THE SPA

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Date:: 1999-10-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364120
Date first listed:: 13-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: THE GROVE
Statutory Address 1:: THE GROVE, 407 AND 408 THE SPA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE GROVE, 407 AND 408 THE SPA

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Melksham Without
National Grid Reference:: ST9149262720

Details

ST 96 SW 4/210

MELKSHAM WITHOUT THE SPA (east side) Nos 407 and 408 (The Grove)

GV II

Spa pump room, now pair of attached houses. Early C19. Ashlar, Welsh slate hipped roof with ashlar stacks. 2-storey, 5-window; one windowed flanking wings project forwards. Entrance doors are to left and right returns; No 407 has 5-sided glass and timber porch with Art Nouveau stained glass, No 408 has door with pilasters and pediment inside a late c19 conservatory. Front has central recessed 3-window block; ground floor verandah with 3 segmental arches and French windows either side of blind window. Balustraded parapet to first floor balcony; three French windows with marginlights. Side wings have one French window to ground floor with key pattern in panel above. One 6-pane sash to first floor. Deep eaves on paired wooden brackets. Returns have three 6-pane sashes to first floor, and right return has blind windows either side of door, left return has square bay window to right of door and lean-to extension to left. Interior of No 408 has been altered and contains no original door cases or fireplaces. Interior of No 407 said to contain fireplaces with reeded surrounds with paterae; not inspected. Central ground floor was one large reception room, this house being the pump room of The Spa c1815. Converted into two dwellings c1901. (The Melksham Guide, 1815).

Listing NGR: ST9149262720

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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The Melksham Guide, (1815)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.