Seend House
SEEND HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243855
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Seend House
- Statutory Address:
- SEEND HOUSE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1243855
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Seend House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SEEND HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SEEND HOUSE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Seend
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 94327 60917
Details
SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9460 (south side) 13/310 Seend House 19.3.62 GV II*
House, c1805-10 for Thomas Bruges, ashlar with low pitched slate hipped roofs and ashlar stacks. Three storeys, formal north and south fronts, square plan. Six-window north front with slightly projected pedimented centre and carved arms in tympanum. Plinth, channelled rusticated ground floor, panelled plat-band, plain raised angle strips and band to upper floors, modillion cornice and parapet. Sash windows, 9-pane to top floor, 12-pane to main floors. Large ground floor sashes have reeded lintel strips, blank arch over and are set in large arched frame with reeded surround. Centre has rusticated piers, rusticated walling and raised arched-headed reeded surround to 6-panel door with traceried fanlight. Projecting Greek Doric porch, paired-columns with fluted necks, entablature with triplets of guttae. West end wall has 3-window range, similarly detailed, centre-broken forward slightly. Sashes to upper floors, blank ground floor windows in reeded arched recesses. South front is 5-window with raised centre and angle piers, moulded cornice, broken forward over piers and reeded string courses stopped at piers. Centre bay has half- glazed door in Roman Doric 2-column porch with pilaster responds, large arched stair light above, breaking string course and top- floor small 3:9:3-pane tripartite sash. Sides have large ground floor 4:12:4-pane tripartite windows with moulded lintel and blank segmental arch over, first floor 12-pane sashes and 9-pane sashes above. East end has flat-roofed addition with basement under. Interior: fine complete Regency interior with mahogany doors in moulded surrounds, plaster cornices, fireplaces with original grates. Geometrical stone staircase with moulded ends to treads and iron rails. Unusual variations on classical detailing throughout. House was built for T. Bruges (1751-1835), Melksham maltster and passed to W.H. Ludlow-Bruges (d.1855) and R.H. Ludlow- Bruges (1907). (E. Bradby, Seend A Wiltshire Village, 1981, 190-5)
Listing NGR: ST9432560919
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 448275
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bradby, E, Seend a Wiltshire Village, (1981), 190 195
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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