Description

KEEVIL MAIN STREET ST 95 NW (south side) 7/148 Talboys 11.9.68 GV I

Detached house. Late C14 to mid C15, east wing added 1876 and whole restored 1899 by Mr. Adye of Bradford-on-Avon. Timber- framing with wattle and daub panels on dressed limestone plinth, stone slate roof, ashlar stack with moulded capping. Two bay open hall with cross wing to west, firmer services and 1876 matching cross wing to east. Two-storey and attic, 4-window front. Planked and studded door in wooden Tudor-arched doorway within gabled C19 porch, 3-light and 4-light wooden mullioned casements to left, 6- light hall window to right, first floor has 4-light and 5-light mullioned casements; all with cusped headed lights and leaded green stained glass, all restored. C15 solar wing to right has two 5-light mullioned casements to ground floor, jettied first floor with oriel, 1876 attic windows formed in spandrels between bracing, decoratively carved barge boards. 1876 wing to left matches solar wing. Right return has external stack for solar, 3-light mullioned casements to right, small 2-light to first floor, gabled garderobe turret to right with 2-light mullioned casements. Left return has mullioned casements and side door. Rear has central 2-storey porch, formerly on front prior to restoration, with stone ground floor, timber-framed first floor, 3-light and 4-light mullioned casements either side and C20 steel casement inserted to right, solar wing to left has 6-light mullioned casements to ground floor and 4-light to first floor, carved barge boards, rear wooden mullioned casements have no cusping and leaded glass is clear. Rear of 1876 wing similar to front Interior. Screens passage divides former services on left from hall on right. Service bay has very deep chamfered beam with stepped stops, 1876 inscribed on C19 stone fireplace. Two-bay open hall has arch-braced collar truss roof with moulded soffits and three tiers of curved windbraces, original gallery on south wall, probably moved here from above screen's passage; the first floor over the latter is jettied. C19 stairs to gallery. Parlour beyond hall has fine panelled ceiling with moulded beams and carved bosses, wall paintings on plaster partly covered over, restored Tudor-arched fireplace. Solar above has full panelling, arch- braced collar truss roof with one tier of curved windbracing. Various features have been restored or may be C19, including wall paintings in the hall; a Talbot dog with crusader flag on wall opposite screen's passage. The house was possibly built by Thomas Barkesdale, a clothier, owned by the Talboy family in 1760s. Miss Chamberlain paid for the restoration in 1876. (Unpublished records of the RCHM (E), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: ST9183858071

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