The Fox Talbot Museum and Abbey Lodge and Entrance Gates

A Grade II Listed Building in Lacock, Wiltshire

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Latitude: 51.4146 / 51°24'52"N

Longitude: -2.1201 / 2°7'12"W

OS Eastings: 391745

OS Northings: 168405

OS Grid: ST917684

Mapcode National: GBR 1RR.BSG

Mapcode Global: VH96K.6PKX

Plus Code: 9C3VCV7H+RX

Entry Name: The Fox Talbot Museum and Abbey Lodge and Entrance Gates

Listing Date: 20 December 1960

Last Amended: 7 January 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1022172

English Heritage Legacy ID: 315538

Also known as: The Fox Talbot Museum

ID on this website: 101022172

Location: Lacock, Wiltshire, SN15

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Lacock

Built-Up Area: Lacock

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Lacock with Bowden Hill

Church of England Diocese: Bristol

Tagged with: Building Biographical museum

Description

LACOCK HIGH STREET ST 9168 (north side) 4/103 The Fox-Talbot Museum and Abbey Lodge and entrance gates (formerly listed as 20.12.60 Lodge and Barn at Abbey entrance gates) GV II

Barn, C16 with house inserted at east end in early C20 and remainder converted to museum of photography 1975. Rubble stone with stone slate roof and coped gables. South side, to road, has one blocked Tudor-arched upper opening and two C19 doorways to museum. House at right end has 2-storey, 2-window range of 2-light mullion windows. North side has 2 lean-to cart entries. Two-light hollow- moulded mullion window by right cart entry. Interior of museum has fine 9½ bay roof of tie-beam trusses with king-posts and collar pieces tenoned into king-posts each side, an unusual truss form also found at Lacock Abbey (q.v.). Interior of house not inspected. Attached low screen wall with ball-finials to piers and C19 iron gates. Old photographs show considerable alteration to road front which had buttresses, 2 elliptical-arched cart-entries and applied Gothick tracery on west end wall. Said to have been built as stable by Sir W. Sharington of Lacock Abbey in mid C16.

Listing NGR: ST9175968400

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