5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365905
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- 5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1365905
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jun-1978
- List Entry Name:
- 5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
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:
- 5, ST JOHN'S SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wilton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 09406 31444
Details
1. 5409 ST JOHN'S SQUARE No 5 (formerly listed as St John's Hospital) SU 0931 5/29B 4.8.51. II* GV
2. Forms wing at right angles to north of No 3. Part of the St John's Hospital complex and once a chapel. West front circa 1400 of stone and flint chequerwork with, to left, brick lacing courses (repairs). 2 storeys, offset string half way up 1st floor. Tiled roof. One 3-light window on 1st floor and a 2-light window on ground floor. Roughly central is a recess exposing a (late) Norman pier with heavy cap. Lean-to to right (see No 8). Gable end to north coped with paired pointed arch lights in gable. Buttresses to centre and right hand side. Brick repairs to chequerwork flint and ashlar. Traces to right of a window with square headed tracery containing cusped ogee.
Listing NGR: SU0940631444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 319281
- 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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