Description

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ST63SE
5/65

BRUTON CP
DROPPING LANE (East side)
Durslade Farmhouse

24.3.61

GV
II
Farmhouse C18. Local stone rubble with Doulting stone dressings; plain clay tile roof between coped gables; stone and chimney starts with moulded caps. "L"-plan; two storeys, three bay south west elevation. Twelve-pane sash windows in architraved surrounds to outer bays; plain door in architrave in centre with carved arms of Berkeley of Stratton in plain plaque above. Return wing on south side of three bays with "Y" tracery pointed arched windows rather wide, to both levels; between bays plain cambered arched doorways.

Interior not seen.

Front added or rebuilt by Sir Charles Berkeley in mid-C18, possibly to design of Nathaniel Ireson; rear may be late C18 restoration of original fabric. First recorded mention 1698 but thought to have been one of the manor farms, later acquired by Hoare family of Stourhead.

Listing NGR: ST6869634487

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26629747

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)