5, 6 and 7 West Street, Lacock Village

A visit to Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village in Wiltshire.

Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. The abbey remained a nunnery until the suppression of Roman Catholic institutions in England in the 16th century; it was then sold to Sir William Sharington who converted the convent into a residence where he and his family lived. It was fortified and remained loyal to the crown during the English Civil War, but surrendered to the Parliamentary forces once Devizes had fallen in 1645.

The house was built over the old cloisters and its main rooms are on the first floor. It is a stone house with stone slated roofs, twisted chimney stacks and mullioned windows. Throughout the life of the building, many architectural alterations, additions, and renovations have occurred so that the house is a mish-mash of different periods and styles. The Tudor stable courtyard to the north of the house has retained many of its original features including the brewhouse and bakehouse.

The house later passed into the hands of the Talbot family, and during the 19th century was the residence of William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1835 he made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative, an image of one of the windows.

In 1944 artist Matilda Theresa Talbot gave the house and the surrounding village of Lacock to the National Trust. The abbey houses the Fox Talbot Museum, devoted to the pioneering work of William Talbot in the field of photography. The Trust markets the abbey and village together as "Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village". The abbey is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated on 20 December 1960.

A walk around Lacock Village.

5, 6 and 7 West Street, Lacock.

Grade II Listed Building

5, West Street

Description

LACOCK WEST STREET
ST 9168
(west side)
4/170 No 5
20.12.60
GV II

House, later C18, rubble stone with stone slate roof and end
stacks. Two storeys. Flush quoins at left end only. Three-
window range of casements; of simplified Venetian type with arched
centre and side lights to ground floor each side, plain casement
pairs above and centre pair with arched top-light. Centre door in
chamfered surround with hood on brackets. C19 plastered parallel
rear range with slate roof and one 16-pane sash. Projecting 2-
storey outbuilding in rubble stone with half-hipped roof.

Listing NGR: ST9151268496

6 and 7, West Street

Description

LACOCK WEST STREET
ST 9168
4/171 Nos 6 and 7
20.12.60
GV II

Pair of houses, later C18 on earlier core, coursed rubble stone
with ashlar dressings and white lime joints. Stone slate roof
with south end and rear wall stacks. Two storeys and attic,
formal 6-window range with flush quoins, raised moulded plinth,
band and eaves band. Cyma-moulded 2-light flush mullion windows,
6 to first floor, 4 to ground floor with doors central to each
house in chamfered surrounds with hoods on brackets. Two hipped
dormers. I & E 1773 scratched on No 6. Rear lean-to and
plastered rear gable to No 7.

Listing NGR: ST9151368506

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Taken in: UK / England / Lacock / Lacock (show map)

Taken on: June 26, 2022

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Grade II Listed Building

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5, West St

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rubble stone with stone slate roof and end stacks

6 and 7, West St

Pair of houses

coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and white lime joints

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Sets appears in: • Lacock Village • Lacock

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Camera: Panasonic DMC-FZ72, f/4.0, 1/800 sec, 9.9mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

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