Description

ST 93 SE TEFFONT THE STREET
(west side)

1/160 Fitz House

6.1.56

GV II

Detached house. Mid C17 with wing of 1700, 1920s alterations.
Dressed limestone, two-span tiled roof, gable-end rendered stacks.
L-plan. Two-storey, 3-window front. Central door with 4 fielded
panels in gabled stone porch, either side is 4-light hollow-
chamfered mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould. First
floor has 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned window with
hoodmould either side of blocked window with inserted square
chamfered light. Roof has coped verges. To left is 2-storey wing
projecting to front, blocked chamfered doorway and 2-light
mullioned window to right return, gable-end to front has 3-light
mullioned window to ground floor, two 2-light mullioned windows to
first floor and one 3-light mullioned window to attic, stone
lozenge-shaped tablet has lettering: R/FITZ/1700/M. Left return
of wing has three 2-light mullioned windows, recessed chamfered
doorway with sidelight under hoodmould and one 3-light mullioned
window. First floor has two 2-light, two 3-light and one 2-light
mullioned windows; all recessed chamfered, wing has pantiled roof.
Right return of main range has lean-to extension with 2-light
mullioned window. Rear has 2-light mullioned windows to gable-end
of wing, main range has pantiled lean-to porch to right, 3-light
and two 2-light mullioned windows to left, first floor has 1-light,
3-light and two 2-light mullioned windows.
Interior has doors with 6 fielded panels, moulded cross beams in
room to left of entrance hall, several square-headed moulded stone
corner fireplaces and one Tudor-arched stone fireplace. Sun
Insurance disc over front door. Wing of 1700 said to have been a
wool store until its conversion for living accommodation in 1920s.
The Fitz family were important freeholders in Teffont Magna from
C17 until early C19. (VCH, Wiltshire Vol 8, 1965.)

Listing NGR: ST9887032097

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439505

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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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)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)