Chute Lodge
CHUTE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1364573
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chute Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- CHUTE LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1364573
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chute Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHUTE LODGE
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:
- CHUTE LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chute Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 30945 51460
Details
CHUTE FOREST - SU 35 SW 10/96 Chute Lodge I
Country house, now 2 flats. 1768 by Sir Robert Taylor, for John Freeman of East India Company. Red brick in header bond, faced with stone rustication to basement storey. Piano nobile and attic floors. Slate roof. Symmetrical plan and elevations, with entrance front to north, garden front to south. Stair under central rotunda with main reception rooms central to each side. Entrance front of 5 bays, the centre 3 broken forward and pedimented. Flanking stairs to terrace raised over 3 arches with groined vaults, and balustrade (lower flights missing). Piano nobile has 3 shallow arches with continuous stone cornice and moulded stone architraves. Pair of doors to central opening, and flanking 12-paned sashes. Six-paned sashes to upper floor. Wide timber pediment with paired modillions and roundel to attics. Bays 1 and 5 have later eaves balustrade, and added small windows in bay 1. Garden elevation has central 3 bays canted for full height, the main windows having architraves with alternating vermiculated rusticated quoins in Gibbs manner, and rounded heads. Flat aprons below. Pair of doors to basement level with emphasised rusticated voussoirs. Paired modillion eaves. Three early C20 tripartite dormers, sashed, with centre light arched. Symmetrical stacks. Side elevations similar, but canted central section to basement and piano nobile only, the roof hipped. Symmetrical north front provides extra bay on return. Service wing. on east, added or rebuilt late Cl9 with return end added early C20, all in similar construction but without window dressings. Twelve and 16-pane sashes. Two storeys. Roof hipped. Interior: Not accessible at time of inspection. Entrance hall leads to-oval flying stair. Library, central to west front, has segmental headed apse with stucco decoration. Much other delicate stucco work. Building is said to be on the site of an Elizabethan house destroyed by fire. Drawings, sold c1978, for the house are signed by Taylor, establishing authorship. (Binney, M., 'The Villas of Sir Robert Taylor', Country Life, 13th July 1967, 81-2; The Biography of Sir Robert Taylor, 1984)
Listing NGR: SU3094551460
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312304
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Binney, M, Sir Robert Taylor from Rococo to Neo Classicism, (1984)
Country Life in 13 July, (1967), 81-2
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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