Shaw House
SHAW HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364149
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shaw House
- Statutory Address:
- SHAW HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364149
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Shaw House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHAW HOUSE, BATH 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:
- SHAW HOUSE, BATH ROAD
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:
- ST 89216 64994
Details
ST 86 NE & MELKSHAM WITHOUT BATH ROAD (West side) ST 86 SE 1/150 & 3/150 Shaw House
II
Large house, now old people's home. 1711 with additions c1840. For Thomas Smith. Ashlar front with stone slate hipped roof, side wings and rear are rubblestone with stone slate or Welsh slate roofs and ashlar stacks. Classical style. 2 storeys and attic. 2:3:2 window front; centre breaks forward. Central 6-panelled fielded door has moulded architrave and segmental pediment. 12- pane sashes have moulded architraves. String course to first floor, modillioned cornice and central pediment with oval wreathed oculus. Parapet with balustrade. 2 dormers to roof. To left is 2 storey, 4 windowed wing of c1840. Sashes with architraves, door to right has broken pediment and is same as door to left of rear. String course and cornice. Ashlar end gable has French window and Dutch gable with oculus and urn finials to parapet. Decorated lead rainwater heads. Garden front to rear of main block has 7 window flat facade and central door with pediment. Wing to right of front is possibly late C17 house remodelled in C18; 2 storeys with attic. 5 windows are 2-light beaded mullions to first floor. 3 doors and cross windows between are separate service quarters. String course. Steeply pitched roof has coped verges and saddlestones. Rear of this wing has beaded 2-light mullions and one 2-light ovolo mullioned window. C20 extension to rear of service wing not included. Interior: entrance hall has bolection moulded fireplace and fielded panelling. Open tread stairs have barley-sugar turned balusters. Library with fielded panelling. 1840's drawing room has moulded plaster cornice, rosette and wall panels. The house was used as a school in early C19. It occupies a prominent position at the end of a straight tree-lined avenue. V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol. 7, 1953.
Listing NGR: ST8921664994
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314367
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1953)
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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