No 5 (Rodney House) With Its Stable Yard and Wall and Garden Railings
NO 5 (RODNEY HOUSE) WITH ITS STABLE YARD AND WALL AND GARDEN RAILINGS, 5, ROUNDSTONE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1364175
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- No 5 (Rodney House) With Its Stable Yard and Wall and Garden Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NO 5 (RODNEY HOUSE) WITH ITS STABLE YARD AND WALL AND GARDEN RAILINGS, 5, ROUNDSTONE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1364175
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- No 5 (Rodney House) With Its Stable Yard and Wall and Garden Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NO 5 (RODNEY HOUSE) WITH ITS STABLE YARD AND WALL AND GARDEN RAILINGS, 5, ROUNDSTONE 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.
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:
- NO 5 (RODNEY HOUSE) WITH ITS STABLE YARD AND WALL AND GARDEN RAILINGS, 5, ROUNDSTONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Trowbridge
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 85847 58013
Details
ROUNDSTONE STREET 1. 5411 (South Side) No 5 (Rodney House) with its stable yard and wall and garden railings. ST 8558 5/47 29.12.50. II* GV
2. Commanding late C18 town mansion. Built soon after 1790) for the younger James Selfes. 3 storeys. Bath stone on projecting plinth. Plain string at 1st floor level. Vitruvian scroll containing quatrefoils at 2nd floor cill level. Fluted frieze with alternate fillers. Moulded cornice. Parapet with moulded coping and balustrade panels over windows. 5 ranges of glazing bar sash windows. Central doorway to ground floor with plain arched fanlight and narrow side lights, architrave to arch and over side lights. Slightly later Greek Doric porch of 2 fluted columns on tall block bases, 2 wall pilasters and enablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned cornice. Flanking symetrical walls with garden doorways of plain piers and heads, formerly round headed arches in recesses with carved foliage over (of also garden front). The wall to left continues to stables (qv) Dwarf wall to right with arrow head railings. Hipped slate roof, 1 ashlar chimney to west. Garden front with 3 ranges of windows, side windows slightly set back in panel terminated by wide corner pier: Pilasters to ground floor with Venetian windows in arched recesses the centre a door. Moulded cope to blocking course with end panels. 2 blind pedimented openings on each side with blind panels having carved swags above. Interior retains much finely executed plasterwork.
Nos 2 to 4 (consec), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable yard and garden railings, stable buildings and walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consec) No 25 (Lovemead House), garden wall and gate piers form a group with Polebarn House and boundary wall, gatepiers and gates and, Polebarn Road, and Nos 1 to 6 (consec) Yerbury Almshouses, Yerbury Street.
Listing NGR: ST8584758013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 314114
- 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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