Description

STEEPLE LANGFORD WARMINSTER ROAD
SU 03 NW
(off south side)
2/100 Bathampton House
23.3.60.
GV II*
Country house. 1694 for Francis Perkins and Mompesson family,
altered 1760's for William Moody. Rubble stone and dressed
limestone, tiled hipped roof, four fine ashlar stacks with fielded
panels and moulded cappings. Originally U-plan, small rear
courtyard filled in mid C18. Two-storey with basement and attic, 7
sashes to front. Central door with 6 fielded panels and transom
light in eared architrave with semi-circular Tuscan porch, basement
to left has two 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements, to
right is mullioned casement and two 3-light leaded casements,
ground floor has three 12-pane sashes in eared architraves, moulded
wooden eaves cornice to roof with five hipped dormers with 6-pane
top hung casements. Channelled rusticated quoins to front. Left
return has blocked window to ground floor, 2-light mullioned
casement to basement and sash to first floor in eared architrave,
rear range has sashes in C20 restored architraves. Right return
has large external stone stack to left with cross windows to right,
rear range has C20 basement door and 3-light mullioned and
transomed window to ground and first floor. Rear, garden front has
3-storey C19 ashlar canted bay to right with French windows and 8-
pane sashes, basement to left has three 2-light mullioned casements
and door with 6 fielded panels in eared architrave, ground floor
has pair of flush sashes in eared architrave to left, 6-pane sash
over door, two 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to centre
bays, 6-pane sash and 12-pane sash lighting stairs. First floor
has tripartite sash to left, 12-pane flush sash and pair of 16-pane
sashes in moulded architraves. Straight joints evidence of former
courtyard to centre of rear facade.
Interior: Most fittings are C18; east stairs probably early C18
with two barleysugar balusters per open string tread, wide moulded
handrail ramped to first floor, stairs up to attics have columnar
balusters, west stairs replaced with lift mid C20. South east room
has full fielded panelling and Adam-style plaster ceiling, doors
with 8 fielded panels. North east drawing room has very fine white
marble Gothick fireplace, reputed to come from Fonthill and
probably late C18; ogee-headed opening flanked by composite
shafts, elaborately carved frieze of allegorical scenes of lawyers
and doctors below coved cornice. White marble fireplace in north
west room probably mid C18. House on site of earlier Mompesson
manor house; their town house is in Salisbury Close.
(N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: SU0170938030

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543131

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)