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Latitude: 51.0179 / 51°1'4"N
Longitude: -2.1689 / 2°10'7"W
OS Eastings: 388250
OS Northings: 124296
OS Grid: ST882242
Mapcode National: GBR 1XJ.4GW
Mapcode Global: FRA 66BF.BVY
Plus Code: 9C3V2R9J+5F
Entry Name: Wincombe Park
Listing Date: 6 July 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1146083
English Heritage Legacy ID: 320860
ID on this website: 101146083
Location: Wiltshire, SP7
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Donhead St. Mary
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Donhead St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
DONHEAD ST. MARY WINCOMBE PARK
ST 82 SE (north side)
6/73 Wincombe Park
II
Country house. 1820s for John Gordon. Painted limestone ashlar,
Welsh slate hipped roof, stone stacks. Two-storey, 3-window east
front. Continuous glazed verandah on cast-iron posts with trellis
frieze, recessed centre bay with double half-glazed margin-pane
doors and side-lights to porch, margin-pane French windows to
flanking bays. First floor has three 2-light margin-pane,
casements, deep eaves to roof. Right return, garden front has
margin-pane French windows with side-lights to left and French
windows to right, first floor has three 2-light margin-pane
casements, to right is 2-storey, 3-bay service range with 6-pane
margin-pane sashes and half-glazed door with transom light, 6-pane
sashes with margin glazing to first floor. Rear has 25-pane and
20-pane sashes, lean-to brick extension. Left return has French
windows and 2-light casements, all with margin-panes, service
courtyard to left with 6-panelled doors and sashes.
Interior has entrance hall with 6-panelled doors with panelled
reveals, open-well stairs with cast-iron rod-balusters and wreathed
handrails. Main reception rooms have plaster ceiling cornices with
acanthus leaf mouldings, shuttered windows, plain marble
fireplaces. Set in wooded parkland with two lakes, said to be
fishponds of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, near the source of the
River Nadder.
(R. Colt Hoare, The Modern History of Wiltshire, Vol 4, 1829)
Listing NGR: ST8825024296
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