Description

SU 12 NE ODSTOCK NUNTON VILLAGE (east side) )

5/144 Nunton House

23/3/60 GV II*

Large house, with rear service wing attached to Lower Nunton Farmhouse. Circa 1720 for Batt family. Header bond brick to front, Flemish bond to sides and rear, tiled roof with coped verges and brick gable end stacks. L-plan. 2 storeys, basement and attic, 7-window symmmetrical front. 3-bay centre has steps up to central door with 6 fielded panels, brass fittings and segmental pediment on engaged Tuscan columns. Either side are narrow 8-pane sashes with two 12-pane sashes in flanking bays. First floor has central 12-pane sash with shouldered architrave and 8-pane sashes either side, with two 12-pane sashes to sides. Central 3 bays have pediment on giant pilasters, and giant pilasters flank sides of front. Modillioned cornice and parapet. Four hipped dormers to roof. Basement has six 2-light casements. All windows have flat brick arches and stone keystones. Left and right returns have two narrow 8-pane sashes to ground and first floors, left return has basement door with pediment and sash to right. Lead rainwater heads to side gutters. Rear of main range has 3-storey stair turret with 2-light leaded casement to each floor, to right is round-arched stair window. To rear is C18 2-storey, 2-window service wing, linking main range with Lower Nunton Farmhouse; ground floor has 9-pane sash and casement, first floor has two 12- pane sashes and hipped dormer has casement. Interior: Original fittings include newel stairs with turned balusters, dados with bolection rail, fielded panelling above and below, classically moulded ceiling cornices and doors with fielded panels and cornices. Ground floor Regency fireplace surrounds with reeded pilasters and anthemion frieze. Some other fittings, including the door and window eared architraves, and the plaster ceiling decoration in the drawing room, are thought to be early C20 work. This house is very similar in design to No 68 The Close, Salisbury, c1718. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1601626046

External Links

• Wikidata Q17543261

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)