Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURTON LANE ST 73 NE (east side) 3/166 No 66 II Estate cottage. Datestone over door: HRH/1850. Flemish bond brick with stone dressings, tiled hipped roof with bands of fishscale tiles, brick stacks. Two-storey, 5-window symmetrical front. Central half-glazed door in gabled stone and brick porch with dated keystone to semi-circular headed opening, two 2-light casements either side with dropped keystones. First floor has five 2-light casements with dropped keystones. Right return has C20 first floor casement. Rear has lean-to extension, 2-light casements. Attached to rear left is single-storey woodshed with planked door, to right are stables with two planked doors and 2- light casements to north side. Said to have been a hunting box for the Stourhead Estate, the initials are those of Hugh Richard Hoare, the 4th Baronet, who made considerable improvements to buildings on the Estate. The cottage occupies a prominent position at the junction to Tower Road. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7734235463

External Links

• Wikidata Q26495271

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)