Description

TISBURY WARDOUR PARK ST 92 NW (east side)

4/277 Ark Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. C18. Dressed limestone to ground floor, English bond brick to first floor, Welsh slate roof. L-plan. Two-storey, 4- window front facing fish pond. Three-bay portico to left with vermiculated block rustication to pilasters and voussoirs of round arched openings to front and to sides, modillioned cornice and pediment, to right is C20 conservatory with glazed doors, first floor has oculus to left and four 2-light casements to right. Rear has round-arched doorway with vermiculated block rustication and mask keystone, double half-glazed doors, three 2-light casements to ground floor and five 2-light and one 3-light casement to first floor. Wing to left has half-glazed door and 2 and 3-light casements. Interior not accessible at time of survey (January 1986). The portico and round-arched doorway are reputed to have come from a Bath House built on the pond by Richard Woods, 1766/7. (Unpublished research of Mrs. F. Cowell, to be published in Journal of Garden History Society)

Listing NGR: ST9363526491

External Links

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