Riverside House
RIVERSIDE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1365448
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Statutory Address:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1365448
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1966
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RIVERSIDE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ramsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 23883 70076
Details
SU 27 SW RAMSBURY AXFORD (south side)
3/170 Riverside House 22.8.66
II*
House. C16 and C17. Brick laced flint with upper floor timber framed with brick noggings, later wing brick. Stone slate roofs. 2- storey with attics and part cellar. 3 bays with 2-bay wing. Earlier structure with central stack with rooms either side, and added bay on north now subdivided to larder and woodstore. To this was added 1690-1700 stair hall and reception room in wing. 6- panelled door over terrace, canopy removed, and 20-pane sashes with brick segmental heads, probably replacement of early C19. Plat band and timber moulded eaves cornice. Earlier block has various timber and leaded casements. Small square framing 3 panels high with straight tension braces to gable. Brick and flint ground floor possibly replacement for lower framing. Block extended with brick refacing in late C17 to south gable. Interior: Open well stair with dado fielded and panelled, 2-turned balusters to each tread, and wreathed rail. Stone flag floor. Reception ,room and bedroom over with narrow fielded panelling and bolection panel over moulded fire surround. Niches either side of stack. Earlier structure with large scantling spine beams, newel stair altered from earlier position behind stack, and Adam fireplace introduced from house in Leicester. (Reference: Survey of the lands of William, 1st Earl of Pembroke).
Listing NGR: SU2388370076
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310633
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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Survey of the lands of William 1st Earl of Pembroke, ()
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