Palm House
PALM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364604
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Palm House
- Statutory Address:
- PALM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1364604
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Palm House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALM HOUSE, HIGH 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:
- PALM HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Market Lavington
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01702 54276
Details
MARKET LAVINGTON HIGH STREET SU 0054-0154 (south side) 12/159 Palm House GV II House in row. Late C17 or early C18. Roughcast on stonework, with tiled roof and slated eaves courses. Two storeys, attics and cellars, 2 bays, originally forming the hall and inner room of house incorporating No 50 (q.v.). Rear wing, original kitchen, now sitting room, with present kitchen in lean-to extension of early C20 on side. Central entrance, a 6-fielded and panelled door in arris beaded frame. Flat canopy on shaped brackets. Sixteen-pane sashes with flush boxes to both floors and 2 hipped dormers. Roof half hipped to left. Left bay contains entrance of No 50. At rear partly projecting stair gabled above eaves. Interior: Original hall with cross beams with check and hollow chamfer stops, now subdivided on cross beam. Newel stair lateral to hall, with splat balusters at attic level. Similar ceiling beams at first floor level, with flying freehold over No 50. Attic also interlocking, with single butt purlin roof. Rear wing has large open lateral fireplace, largely rebuilt.
Listing NGR: SU0170254276
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 312064
- 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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