The Convent
THE CONVENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318474
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Convent
- Statutory Address:
- THE CONVENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1318474
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jan-1966
- List Entry Name:
- The Convent
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CONVENT
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:
- THE CONVENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Stourton with Gasper
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 75687 34692
Details
STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD PARK ST 73 SE (west side) 6/165 The Convent 6.1.66 GV I Gothic fantasy cottage. Circa 1765 for Henry Hoare of Stourhead House (q.v.). Rocky limestone with some flint, thatched roof, stone fantasy stacks. Single-storey with attics. Main range has canted bay with three pointed openings facing south, central French windows flanked by windows with Y-tracery and hexagonal leaded glazing, large stone stack to right has central obelisk pinnacle with four smaller pinnacles around base. Lower range to right has central stone porch with pointed opening and planked inner door, pointed window with Y-tracery either side, right gable end has bellcote with pointed arched opening and cross finial. Right return has pointed attic casement, C20 ground floor pointed window to right. Left return has flanking square corner turrets with pierced pyramidal cappings with finials, ground floor has three trefoil-headed leaded windows, attic with trefoil-he-aded 2-light window, coped verge to gable. Rear range rebuilt 1980s with facades in same rocky style with pointed casements and pointed moulded doorway. Interior: Drawing room has groin vaulted ceiling with-pebble-dashed finish, pointed niches on west wall flanking window. 1980s gothic fireplace. Dining room has flagstone floor and stone corbels to ceiling. Original roof retained. Originally said to have contained painted panels depicting nuns of different orders and stained glass from Glastonbury. Little is known of the origins of this building, but it was presumably built as a picturesque pavilion for carriage and riding excursions from Stourhead House. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975).
Listing NGR: ST7569034690
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321271
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Woodbridge, K, The Stourhead Landscape, (1982)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,
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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