EASTWELL HOUSE

EASTWELL HOUSE, EASTWELL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273200
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
List Entry Name:: EASTWELL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: EASTWELL HOUSE, EASTWELL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273200
Date first listed:: 19-Mar-1962
List Entry Name:: EASTWELL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: EASTWELL HOUSE, EASTWELL 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EASTWELL HOUSE, EASTWELL ROAD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Potterne
National Grid Reference:: ST 99352 57977

Details

ST 95 NE POTTERNE EASTWELL ROAD

7/134 Eastwell House 19.3.62 GV II

House, late C17 or early C18 rebuilding on core apparently C17 but said to date from late C15. C18 and C19 alterations. Roughcast with slate hipped roof and centre brick stack. Basement, 2 storeys and attic, square plan with gabled projecting additions on all but east side. Timber dentilled eaves cornice and similar dentilled string course over ground floor. Exposed-box 12-pane sashes. Three-window range to east front with 4-light early to mid C17 basement ovolo-moulded mullion window to left. Three dormers. North front is built out, partly in 1860, incorporating original gabled porch tower. Now 2-gabled with 9-pane attic windows, 12-pane first-floor windows each side of timber mullion- and-transom 3-light stair window, similar 2-light window below, French window to right and porch arch to left. Similar arch to left with 12-pane sash over, and a further single-storey arched projection to east, open to north, with timber oriel to south and, to east, an ornate timber door surround, probably re-used, with Corinthian pilasters and hood on scrolled brackets. Old illustrations show this doorcase in position of the oriel. West front has centre bay built out c1859, side bays with original fenestration and hipped dormers. Basement has ovolo-moulded mullion windows. South front has full-height basement and right bay built out c1859, the other two with original fenestration and hipped dormers. Basement has ovolo-moulded arched stone doorway with studded plank door and one 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window. Interior: panelled staircase on north side. Ground floor north- east room has thick glazing bars of early C18 type to windows. South-west room has fine raised moulded panelling of c1700. Several fireplaces have large and ornate surrounds apparently made up in the C19 from four poster beds, one in south-east projection has delicate Renaissance portrait heads in relief. House is said to be dated 1489 on roof lead, in possession of the Grubbe family from the mid C15. Thomas Hunt-Grubbe is recorded as having put the house into order in 1772. Old illustrations show a steeper stone slate roof, said to have been altered c1830.

Listing NGR: ST9935257977

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Legacy System number:: 445660
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

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