List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: THE OLD DOWER HOUSE
List Entry Number: 1131120
Location
THE OLD DOWER HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Wiltshire
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 06-Jan-1966
Date of most recent amendment: 09-Sep-1987
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 321199
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
MAIDEN BRADLEY CHURCH STREET
ST 83 NW
(west side)
4/93 The Old Dower House
(formerly listed as
6.1.66 Seymour House)
GV II
Detached house. Early C19. Stucco, hipped Welsh slate roof with
brick stacks. Two-storey, 3-window front. Central door with 4
round-arched panels, semi-circular fanlight in panelled reveals,
flanked by Ionic pilasters from removed portico, centre bay
projects slightly, flanking 12-pane sashes with margin-panes.
First floor has three 12-pane margin-pane sashes. Left return has
bay with French windows, C19 conservatory to left, 12-pane sashes
to first floor. Right return has 3-light leaded casement, 30-pane
sash and planked door, to services. Rear wing on south side is
original; 20-pane and 16-pane sashes, wing to north is later C19
addition with 12-pane sashes.
Interior has original features; open stair hall with stick
balusters and continuous wreathed handrail. Various doors; 8-
panelled ground floor doors probably brought here from Bradley
House. Drawing room with grey marble fireplace, late C19
Elizabethan-style fireplace and plaster frieze in dining room.
Listing NGR: ST8021738709
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Map
National Grid Reference: ST 80217 38709
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