Nos. 11 and 12 St John's Street
11 and 12, St John's Street, Devizes
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429126
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 11 and 12 St John's Street
- Statutory Address:
- 11 and 12, St John's Street, Devizes
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1429126
- Date first listed:
- 05-Mar-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Nos. 11 and 12 St John's Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11 and 12, St John's Street, Devizes
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:
- 11 and 12, St John's Street, Devizes
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Devizes
- National Grid Reference:
- SU0045561384
Details
657/0/10014
SU00456138
DEVIZES,
ST JOHN'S STREET,
Nos. 11 and 12
GV II
No. 12 was previously included in the list entry for No. 6, St John's Alley.
Builder's office and showroom. Dated 1903. Fishscale tile hanging and rendered with applied timber-framing to the gables and stone piers on ground floor. Clay plain tile gabled roof with moulded bargeboards with pendants and plastered coved eaves.
PLAN: Corner site with showroom on ground floor and offices above; incorporating earlier range, No.12, at rear, east. Domestic Revival style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys. Asymmetrical west front with oriel on right of first floor on carved wooden brackets, rising to second floor window in gable which has applied timber-framing and carved wooden shield inscribed with date and initials F.R. 1903; 3-light window on left of first floor. Similar, but larger, oriel at centre of narrower south elevation rising to gabled first floor bay window breaking eaves and with similar timber-framing and carved wooden shield; the first and second floor oriels and windows have moulded frames with leaded pane casements, moulded cornices over first floor oriels and continuous moulded string course at second floor cill level below coved eaves. Tall ground floor showroom continued on both west and south fronts, with stone piers, wooden pilasters and deep fascia; doorway on left of west front; plate glass showroom windows. No.12 St John's Street is part of the accommodation of No.11; it is a C19 stuccoed 2-storey 2-window range with a 2-light multi-pane shop front with fluted pilasters and cornice continuing over replacement door on left; 2- and 4-light casements above.
INTERIOR altered, ground floor one large room and later partitions on first and second floors.
An Edwardian example of the Domestic Revival style with considerable group value in the centre of Devizes.
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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