Description

HEYTESBURY TYTHERINGTON LANE ST 92 SW (west side) 9/100 Parsonage Farm and attached cottage 11.9.68 (formerly listed as Parsonage House)

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Farmhouse with cottage attached to rear. Early C17, rebuilt mid C18. Dressed limestone, tiled roof with hip to left and coped verge to right, groups of diagonally set brick stacks. 'L'-plan. Two storey, 6-windowed front; casements. Six-panelled door with fanlight in semi-circular head to left of centre. Twelve-pane sash with margin panes to left, early C20 French windows and two 2-light cyma-moulded mullioned casements to right. First floor has five cyma-mullioned casements and one blocked mullioned window. Right return in English garden wall bond brick with stone quoins; 2- light ovolo-mullioned casement to first floor and 2-light casement to attic. Left return has early C19 bay with sashes, half-glazed door and 3-light casement to ground floor, first floor has 4-light and 3-light casement. Rear of main range is rebuilt in Flemish bond brick, large lateral stone stack to centre, to right is gabled stair turret with 2-light wooden ovolo-mullioned window. Attached to rear is early C19 single storey service extension with cast-iron latticed casements and planked door. Interior is partly altered, but first floor principal room retains fine Jacobean plaster ceiling with broad bands and pendants, and large stone moulded square fireplace with vase-moulded pilasters, fluted frieze to entablature and overmantel with strapwork decoration with heraldic arms, probably of Moore family. Ante-room to north side of first floor chamber has oak wainscot panelling, small stone Tudor-arched fireplace with arabesque carved overmantel. Stairs rebuilt to first floor level, but winding oak stairs survive up to attics. Early C19 cottage attached to rear is rubble stone with tiled roof, planked central door and 3-light casements either side, two 2-light casements to first floor and to rear. Part of manor belonging to Dean of Sarum and occupied by Rachel Moore c.1630, whose effigy is in north aisle of chancel of Church of St. Peter and St. Paul (q.v.). (E.D. Ginever, The Ancient Wiltshire Village of Heytesbury, 1981.)

Listing NGR: ST9250842450

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)