Sutton Veny House
SUTTON VENY HOUSE, BISHOPSTROW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300544
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Veny House
- Statutory Address:
- SUTTON VENY HOUSE, BISHOPSTROW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1300544
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Sutton Veny House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUTTON VENY HOUSE, BISHOPSTROW ROAD
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:
- SUTTON VENY HOUSE, BISHOPSTROW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Veny
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 89642 42339
Details
SUTTON VENY BISHOPSTROW ROAD ST 84 SE (off east side) 3/215 Sutton Veny House
GV II
Country house, now nursing home. 1856 rebuilding for Joseph Everett. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate and lead flats, ashlar stacks. Regency style. Two-storey, 7-windowed west front; sashes. Central 2-storey semi-circular bow with domed top, central glazed door and 12-pane sash either side within Tuscan colonnade, left and right are two 12-pane sashes. String course to first floor; sashes either side of bow with three sashes; all in moulded stone architraves, chanelled rusticated quoins, dentilled and modillioned cornice to panelled blocking course. Left return has 2 storey bow with sashes, single storey attached garden room with French windows and sashes. Right return is garden front with central 5 bays recessed between 2-bay flanking wings, verandah on Tuscan columns to centre bays, central French windows and two sashes either side, first floor balcony over with five sashes, flanking wings with two ashes to both floors, all sashes in moulded architraves, channelled rusticated quoins, cornice and blocking course as front. Rear garden front has Ionic portico, up steps to French windows with side 8-pane sashes, three sashes to first floor. Rear 2-storey 5-bay service block with 6-panelled door in gabled porch to rear entrance, plain ashlar with 12-pane sashes. Interior: C17 and C18-style features such as large entrance hall with Ionic columns and round-arched openings, early C18 style stairs have three turned balusters per open string tread, ramped and wreathed handrails. C17-style panelling and fireplaces to main ground floor rooms, 6-panelled doors, enriched ceiling cornices, drawing room has carved stone fireplace, bolection-moulded panelling and doors with eight fielded panels. A rebuilding on the site of a C17 house by Joseph Everett, a local mill owner, to whose memory the Church of St. John was built (q.v.). The house was originally known as Greenhill House. (National Monuments Record; VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965).
Listing NGR: ST8964242339
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)
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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