Description

ST 96 NE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

5/16 The Estate Yard at Bowood House,
with attached lodge and gates

GV II

Service court to Bowood House, mid C19, rubble stone with brick
dressings and slate roofs, partly lean-to against earlier rubble
stone enclosing walls. Courtyard plan with continuous ranges on 3
sides, former store-rooms, sculleries, coach-house and fire-engine
house. Doors and glazing bar windows in brick surrounds. Covered
entry at north end of east range. Against west wall, half-
octagonal game-larder with louvred openings in brick surrounds and
louvred octagonal timber lantern. Attached to west side of east
wall is lean-to former coach-house and lodge, with 6 ashlar Roman
Doric columns, 3 bays still open, the rest enclosed. Lodge south
end abuts ramped ashlar screen wall to C19 corniced gatepiers with
heavy timber gates, wall ramped up on other side to west wall of
Bowood House. Pedestrian gate to right of main gates with 6-panel
door, matching blank recess to left of gates.

Listing NGR: ST9739269953

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552742

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