Latitude: 51.3517 / 51°21'6"N
Longitude: -1.9948 / 1°59'41"W
OS Eastings: 400460
OS Northings: 161407
OS Grid: SU004614
Mapcode National: GBR 2V1.0JF
Mapcode Global: VHB4G.C9T3
Plus Code: 9C3W9224+M3
Entry Name: 23 High Street
Listing Date: 28 March 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1262286
English Heritage Legacy ID: 435455
ID on this website: 101262286
Location: Devizes, Wiltshire, SN10
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Devizes
Built-Up Area: Devizes
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Devizes St John
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Building
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SU 0061
4/351
HIGH STREET (West side)
No 23
II
Former Friends Meeting House built or rebuilt in 1701-2 superseding a building erected in 1689-90, on a site at Hillworth Park, Wicke, which was owned by the Friends since the mid C17. The meeting house is set back from the High Street behind a 1920s ashlar screen wall and stands on the west side of a former forecourt.
The east front is of one and a half storeys red brick with untreated stone quoins, wide coved plaster eaves cornice and a half hipped tiled roof with plain gabled dormer. Two tall windows, high set with flat arched heads and central doorway with windows above. The south wall is rendered with a projecting staircase wing. One bay extension to the original two bays, to rear, brickwork exposed.
Inside a single room with attic floor above the staircase half landing providing a primitive formerly shuttered gallery. The top flight of stairs has substantial early C16 turned balusters.
Listing NGR: SU0046061407
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