Bishopstone House
BISHOPSTONE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284290
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Bishopstone House
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOPSTONE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1284290
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Bishopstone House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOPSTONE HOUSE
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:
- BISHOPSTONE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 08501 26562
Details
SU 02 NE BISHOPSTONE BISHOPSTONE VILLAGE (east side)
5/37 Bishopstone House 23.3.60 GV II
Rectory, now detached house. Circa 1820 by John Lowder of Bath for Rev. T. Bromley. Yellow Flemish bond brick, Welsh slate hipped roof, brick stacks. Rectangular house with rear service wing. Two-storey, 5-window west front. Central 6-panelled door in slightly projecting ashlar porch with moulded cornice, two 6-pane sashes with wedge lintels either side. First floor has stone plat band, five 9-pane sashes. Boxed eaves to roof. Right return, garden front has three 12-pane sashes to ground floor, plat band and three 9-pane sashes to first floor, lead rainwater goods. Rear has attached half-octagonal conservatory of 1828 by R. Read of Salisbury; Flemish bond brick with diagonal buttresses and small- paned fixed windows, hipped glazed roof, gothic-style glazing bars are C20 insertions, to right are three 12-pane sashes, plat band to first floor with five 9-pane sashes. Rear 2-storey service wing with glazed door and 12-pane sashes, single-storey outhouse and flat-roofed C20 garage to rear. Interior has open-well stairs with stick balusters and wreathed handrail, top-lit by circular dome, 6-panelled doors in moulded architraves, window shutters and plaster ceiling cornices retained. Conservatory built for Rev. George Augustus Montgomery, who moved here 1824 and died 1842 (see his monument in Church of St John the Baptist (q.v.)). Cecilia, his wife, painted several watercolours depicting the house and church during 1820s. Ceased to be the rectory c1950. (Country Life, November 12th, 1959)
Listing NGR: SU0850126562
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320623
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in 12 November, (1959)
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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