Zeals House

Zeals House, Lower Zeals

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318497
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: Zeals House
Statutory Address:: Zeals House, Lower Zeals

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1318497
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: Zeals House
Statutory Address 1:: Zeals House, Lower Zeals

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Zeals House, Lower Zeals

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Zeals
National Grid Reference:: ST 79634 31908

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 April 2025 to amend date of listing and reformat the text to current standards ST 73 SE 6/184

ZEALS LOWER ZEALS (east side) Zeals House

6.1.66

GV I Country house. Late C14, C17, C18 and 1860s, the latter for William Chafyn-Grove. Limestone rubble stone, Welsh slate roofs, stone stacks with moulded cappings. Rambling L-plan, the earliest range consisting of two storey hall and solar range to north east of C17 and C19 additions.

Two-storey and attic, eight window east front. Central recessed bay with 1860s porch with Tudor-arched double doors and Chafyn-Grove arms over, five-light mullioned window and battlemented parapet, three-light ovolo-mullioned and transomed window to left, C14 range projecting to right has two C19 three-light ovolo-mullioned and transomed windows with hoodmoulds to ground and first floors, gabled solar wing and stair turret to right have two-light and three-light mullioned and transomed windows, glazed door to present kitchen. C17 range to left of porch has three-light and four-light mullioned and transomed casements to ground and first floors, two attic gables with three-light ovolo-mullioned casements, coped verges with ball finials, attached to left of this is 1869 addition with external stack, first floor oriel and C17 style mullioned and transomed casements. 1869 left return has pair of gabled bays with mullioned casements and five-light mullioned and transomed casement between with Chafyn-Grove arms over. Right return is north gable-end of C14 and C17 parallel ranges; diagonal buttress to left, C19 porches and mullioned and transomed casements, C17 ovolo-mullioned casements to attics. Rear left has chamfered and ovolo-mullioned casements, parapet to roof, single-storey attached tack-room, C17 range projecting to right has mullioned casements to basement, ground and first floors, some C19 restored, two storey bay remodelled as tower with battlemented parapet in 1860s, 1869 south wing has cross windows.

Interior: entrance hall in C17 range with C19 full panelling and stairs to rear with turned balusters, first floor drawing room on west side has shallow barrel-vaulted ceiling and C18 full fielded panelling and overmantel, former servants hall below, reset C17 full wainscotting in bedroom over entrance hall. North west range, possibly late Medieval and remodelled in C17 and C18 has Tudor-arched ground floor doorway with ledged door, first floor room with early C18 moulded plaster ceiling cornice. C14 range to north east; dining room with white marble fireplace with Ionic columns, C18 joinery, billiard room over with full fielded panelling and marble corner fireplace, very good eight bay roof in attics to former first floor open hall: arch-braced cranked collar trusses with cyma-moulded soffits and two tiers of windbracing with cusped decoration. North east solar wing has first floor room with full panelling, marble fireplace with overmantel, good doors, attic has formerly plastered barrel-vaulted ceiling, three bay roof with hollow-chamfered collar trusses. Early C18 stairs in north east turret with three turned balusters per tread, wreathed handrail, panelled dado and good plaster ceiling with moulded cornice and Chafyn-Grove arms in centre panel. 1869 drawing room with C17 style fittings including panelling with frieze, stairs to attic C17 style with serpentine splat balusters. 1869 service accommodation in separate wing to west; chamfered mullioned casements and round-arched opposing doorways with keystones, below a gabled clocktower with keyed clockface.

Matthew de Clevedon acquired a house here in 1372 and apparently rebuilt it; the roof of a former first floor open hall probably dates from this time. The Chafyn family, subseqently the Chafyn-Groves acquired the property during C15 and their descendants remained here till mid C20.

Listing NGR: ST7963431908

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