Latitude: 51.321 / 51°19'15"N
Longitude: -2.2045 / 2°12'16"W
OS Eastings: 385847
OS Northings: 158013
OS Grid: ST858580
Mapcode National: GBR 1ST.1GX
Mapcode Global: VH972.Q2Y3
Plus Code: 9C3V8QCW+C6
Entry Name: No 5 (Rodney House) with Its Stable Yard and Wall and Garden Railings
Listing Date: 29 December 1950
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1364175
English Heritage Legacy ID: 314114
ID on this website: 101364175
Location: Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Trowbridge
Built-Up Area: Trowbridge
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Trowbridge St James
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
ROUNDSTONE STREET
1.
5411
(South Side)
No 5 (Rodney House)
with its stable yard and wall
and garden railings.
ST 8558 5/47 29.12.50.
II* GV
2.
Commanding late C18 town mansion. Built soon after 1790) for the younger James
Selfes. 3 storeys. Bath stone on projecting plinth. Plain string at 1st floor
level. Vitruvian scroll containing quatrefoils at 2nd floor cill level. Fluted
frieze with alternate fillers. Moulded cornice. Parapet with moulded coping and
balustrade panels over windows. 5 ranges of glazing bar sash windows. Central
doorway to ground floor with plain arched fanlight and narrow side lights, architrave
to arch and over side lights. Slightly later Greek Doric porch of 2 fluted columns
on tall block bases, 2 wall pilasters and enablature with triglyph frieze and modillioned
cornice. Flanking symetrical walls with garden doorways of plain piers and heads,
formerly round headed arches in recesses with carved foliage over (of also garden
front). The wall to left continues to stables (qv) Dwarf wall to right with arrow
head railings. Hipped slate roof, 1 ashlar chimney to west.
Garden front with 3 ranges of windows, side windows slightly set back in panel
terminated by wide corner pier: Pilasters to ground floor with Venetian windows
in arched recesses the centre a door. Moulded cope to blocking course with end
panels. 2 blind pedimented openings on each side with blind panels having carved
swags above.
Interior retains much finely executed plasterwork.
Nos 2 to 4 (consec), No 5 (Rodney House) with stable yard and garden railings,
stable buildings and walls, Nos 8 to 13 (consec) No 25 (Lovemead House), garden
wall and gate piers form a group with Polebarn House and boundary wall, gatepiers
and gates and, Polebarn Road, and Nos 1 to 6 (consec) Yerbury Almshouses, Yerbury
Street.
Listing NGR: ST8584758013
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