Description

CALNE

ST9971 CURZON STREET
755-1/4/48 (North side)
19/05/50 No.5
St Cecilia's
(Formerly Listed as:
CURZON STREET
(North side)
No.9)
(Formerly Listed as:
CURZON STREET
(North side)
No.5
Curzon House)

GV II*

Formerly known as: Nos.5 AND 7 CURZON STREET.
Pair of attached houses, with left-hand house, now all one
school building. Dated 1743; extended early C19, including
early-mid C19 left-hand house. Red brick with darker brick
surrounds, rubbed brick dressings and limestone ashlar,
sandstone flagged terrace, slate hipped roof and lateral and
gable stacks. Double-depth plan, with early C19 extended
projecting wings flanking raised platform.
2 storeys, attic and cellar; 2:7-window range. A wide
symmetrical front has projecting early C19 single-window
ashlar wings connected by a raised terrace, rusticated ashlar
central section, cornice and parapet. Doorways with
architraves set 1-window in from the ends of the central
range, with broken pediments with balls on console brackets,
6-panel doors, the right-hand one with a good octagonal
lantern in the overlight.
The central brick range has cill bands and a first-floor drip
course, panelled aprons, and windows with plat band and
cornice with different moulding, keyed architraves, segmental
heads and horned 6/6-pane sashes; wings have horned recessed
6/6-pane sashes, with a right-hand first-floor 15/15-pane
sash. Steps up through the terrace to the doorways, low
terrace cellar windows; former railings removed. Good original
downpipe and hopper dated 1743. Left-hand 2-window house has a
right-hand door and horned 6/6-pane sash. Right-hand return
has a second-floor cross window.
Rear elevation, rebuilt c1840 in Domestic Tudor style, has a
central projecting gable with a full-height 5-light canted
bay, and cross windows with labels.
INTERIOR: altered mid C19; details include an axial passage
with semicircular arches, a right-hand stair hall with timber
open-well stair, curtail and late C19 wrought-iron railings;
front room with C17 oak linenfold panelling and boxed cornice,
cast-iron hob grate and stone surround; vaulted cellars.
The mid C18 house is a good example of an early semi-detached
house.
That part formerly listed as No.9 Curzon Street was listed on
08/07/76.

Listing NGR: ST9964471168

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543856

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  For the Record