BATHAMPTON HOUSE

BATHAMPTON HOUSE, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1146200
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: BATHAMPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BATHAMPTON HOUSE, WARMINSTER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1146200
Date first listed:: 23-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: BATHAMPTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BATHAMPTON HOUSE, WARMINSTER ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BATHAMPTON HOUSE, WARMINSTER ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Steeple Langford
National Grid Reference:: SU 01709 38030

Details

STEEPLE LANGFORD WARMINSTER ROAD SU 03 NW (off south side) 2/100 Bathampton House 23.3.60. GV II* Country house. 1694 for Francis Perkins and Mompesson family, altered 1760's for William Moody. Rubble stone and dressed limestone, tiled hipped roof, four fine ashlar stacks with fielded panels and moulded cappings. Originally U-plan, small rear courtyard filled in mid C18. Two-storey with basement and attic, 7 sashes to front. Central door with 6 fielded panels and transom light in eared architrave with semi-circular Tuscan porch, basement to left has two 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements, to right is mullioned casement and two 3-light leaded casements, ground floor has three 12-pane sashes in eared architraves, moulded wooden eaves cornice to roof with five hipped dormers with 6-pane top hung casements. Channelled rusticated quoins to front. Left return has blocked window to ground floor, 2-light mullioned casement to basement and sash to first floor in eared architrave, rear range has sashes in C20 restored architraves. Right return has large external stone stack to left with cross windows to right, rear range has C20 basement door and 3-light mullioned and transomed window to ground and first floor. Rear, garden front has 3-storey C19 ashlar canted bay to right with French windows and 8- pane sashes, basement to left has three 2-light mullioned casements and door with 6 fielded panels in eared architrave, ground floor has pair of flush sashes in eared architrave to left, 6-pane sash over door, two 18-pane sashes with thick glazing bars to centre bays, 6-pane sash and 12-pane sash lighting stairs. First floor has tripartite sash to left, 12-pane flush sash and pair of 16-pane sashes in moulded architraves. Straight joints evidence of former courtyard to centre of rear facade. Interior: Most fittings are C18; east stairs probably early C18 with two barleysugar balusters per open string tread, wide moulded handrail ramped to first floor, stairs up to attics have columnar balusters, west stairs replaced with lift mid C20. South east room has full fielded panelling and Adam-style plaster ceiling, doors with 8 fielded panels. North east drawing room has very fine white marble Gothick fireplace, reputed to come from Fonthill and probably late C18; ogee-headed opening flanked by composite shafts, elaborately carved frieze of allegorical scenes of lawyers and doctors below coved cornice. White marble fireplace in north west room probably mid C18. House on site of earlier Mompesson manor house; their town house is in Salisbury Close. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: SU0170938030

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Legacy System number:: 320536
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.