YORK GUEST HOUSE

YORK GUEST HOUSE, 26A AND 28, CHURCH WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364167
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: YORK GUEST HOUSE
Statutory Address:: YORK GUEST HOUSE, 26A AND 28, CHURCH WALK

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Date:: 1999-08-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364167
Date first listed:: 29-Sep-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 13-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: YORK GUEST HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: YORK GUEST HOUSE, 26A AND 28, CHURCH WALK

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:: YORK GUEST HOUSE, 26A AND 28, CHURCH WALK

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Melksham
National Grid Reference:: ST9037263904

Details

ST 9063 MELKSHAM . CHURCH WALK (east side)

7/46 Nos 26a and 28 (York Guest House) (formerly listed as York House) 29.9.50

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House and rear wing, now hotel. Late C18. Painted brick with ashlar quoins and dressed stone returns, stone slate roof with coped verges and ashlar stacks. No 26a is rear projecting wing of No 28; 2-storey, one-window. Chamfered door case and 2-light cym- mullioned windows to ground and first floors. No 28 has 2-storeys and attic, 6-windowed symmetrical front. Central 8-panelled Venetian doorway with fanlight in fine reeded arched case with keystone and narrow sash side-lights in reeded cases, good cast- iron boot-scraper to right of door. Either side is 16-pane sash in beaded architrave. Plat band. First floor has five 12-pane sashes in beaded architraves, plus one small later sash. Two large hipped dormers to roof have 3-light beaded mullioned windows. Right return has 3-light beaded mullioned window to ground and attic floors. Left return and single storey rear wing has chamfered door case with flat stone hood on brackets and cyma mullioned windows, 2-light beaded mullioned window to first floor. Interior has round-arched openings and stone fireplace with staff moulding and moulded cornice.

Listing NGR: ST9037263904

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Legacy System number:: 314264
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.