Description

STEEPLE ASHTON VICARAGE LANE ST 9056 (north side) 13/276 Church House GV II

Part of rectory, now semi-detached house. 1828 extension to rectory (Old Parsonage q.v.) by H. Harrison. Bath stone cut and laid as Flemish bond brick, Welsh slate roof, brick stacks. Two- storey, 2-wihdow gable end entrance front. Square porch with buttresses and shallow Tudor-arched openings on two sides to right, glazed doors with interlaced tracery in moulded Tudor-arched inner doorway, plain parapet to flat roof, cross window to first floor over, canted bay with 3-light mullioned and transomed casement to left, 3-light mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould to first floor, string course to steep pedimented gable, concealing roof of shallower pitch. Left return has canted bay to left, two cross windows to right and three to first floor; all with hoodmoulds. Rear gable end has similar windows, C20 door. Interior retains original 1828 fittings, stairs with stick balusters and continuous handrail, 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, fireplaces. (Diocesan Records, Trowbridge)

Listing NGR: ST9079356968

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]