Wight House
WIGHT HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wight House
- Statutory Address:
- WIGHT HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1387803
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Wight House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIGHT HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
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:
- WIGHT HOUSE, CANUTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 42652 10996
Details
SU 4210 SOUTHAMPTON CANUTE ROAD
983/5/10030 Wight House
GV II
Bank. 1896; by S. Kelway Pope, for the Capital Counties Bank. Yellow brick with Bath stone dressings. Slate mansard roof with stone coping to gable ends and lead rolls, flats and dome. Gable end brick stacks with stone cornices. PLAN: Rectangular on plan with central entrance and stairhall. Victorian Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 2:1:2 bay north front. Paired and panelled end pilasters and central projecting bay with panelled pilasters, entablatures over ground and first floors, parapet, the centre bay with arcading; cambered arch windows with moulded stone architraves with small keystones and sashes without glazing bars [ground floor replaced]; central doorway with shouldered architrave with keystone and blind fanlight above. Small lead-clad dome over centre bay with small tented roof lantern with weathervane, flanked by dormers with segmental pediments. Similar dormers at rear, which has plainer elevation with sash windows with cambered arches. INTERIOR: Doorways with panelled architraves with cornices and cantilevered staircase with cast-iron balustrade with moulded mahogany handrail.
Listing NGR: SU4265610996
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 475795
- 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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