25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391778
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-2006
- List Entry Name:
- 25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391778
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-2006
- List Entry Name:
- 25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 25 & 26, COMPTON 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:
- 25 & 26, COMPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hilmarton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 02079 75211
Details
HILMARTON
1385/0/10019 COMPTON ROAD 18-DEC-06 25 & 26
GV II A pair of Poynder Estate cottages dated 1875.
MATERIALS: The cottages are built in rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, and with stone slate pitched and gabled roofs (they appear to have been re-roofed in the C20) and a central ashlar ridge stack.
PLAN: The cottages, each of a T-plan, are joined back to back.
EXTERIOR: The two storey cottages have mullion and transom windows with iron lattice lights, with hood-moulds above. To the left and right are three-centred arched entrances with waved hood-moulds and decorative stops. Above each entrance is a square shaped carved plaque with the date 1875 and the signet of W H Poynder. To the rear are late C20 lean-to extensions: all not of special interest.
INTERIOR: No. 25 contains various C19 features including on the ground floor, wood panelling along the walls, some vertically panelled doors, a large fire place (for a former range), a stone bread oven with cast-iron door, and in the two bedrooms upstairs, two identical plain fire surrounds with cast-iron grates. The interior of No. 26 could not be inspected.
HISTORY: No's. 25 and 26 Compton Road were built as part of a group of estate cottages built in Hilmarton in the early 1870s by the Poynder family to designs by the architect and agent Henry Weaver. The cottages, which display a distinctive architectural style and plan-form, correspond with the plans in Weaver's book `Hints on Cottage Architecture', published in 1848.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: No's. 25 and 26 Compton Road display distinctive, good quality architectural detailing and decoration, expressing the `architectural branding' by the Poynder Estate. As such they form part of the important group of listed Poynder Estate cottages in Hilmarton, built in the early 1870s and based on designs by the architect and agent Henry Weaver who had published his ideas on cottage architecture in `Hints on Cottage Architecture' in 1848.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 502485
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Weaver, H, Hints on Cottage Architecture, (1848)
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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