Description

DOWNTON SOUTH LANE
SU 1721
(east side)
5/118
The Courthouse
23/3/60 (formerly listed as Borough House)

II*

Detached house. Dated 1673 on stone corbels on front and rear
walls and interior. English bond brick, tiled roof, gable-end
brick stacks. L-plan. 2-storey, 2-window front. Planked door
with moulded architrave and cornice, to left of centre, to right
are two 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned windows and to left is
one 2-light, all with hoodmoulds. 3-brick plat band to first
floor; three 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned windows. Wooden
modillioned eaves cornice. Two 2-light casements to raking
dormers. Coped verges to roof with kneelers. Stepped brick
stacks. To right is single-storey projecting extension; C18, with
half-hipped roof. Left return has late C17 lean-to extension with
pair of leaded windows, first floor has two leaded oculi. Right
return has one 2-light mullioned window to ground floor, 3-brick
plat band to first floor and attic level; oculus to first floor and
attic. Rear has three 2-light mullioned windows to ground and
first floors, 3-brick plat band is carried over moulded stone
oculus lighting stairs. Modillioned eaves cornice. Two 2-light
casements to raking dormers. Lean-to to right has 2-light
mullioned window to ground floor and pair of leaded lights to first
floor.
Interior retains good C17 features; large stone Tudor-arched
fireplace in large room to right of door, open fireplace in smaller
room has chamfered timber lintel with bar and runout stops.
Central stairs are boxed-in by fine oak plank and muntin partitions
which rise to attic, vase-turned balusters to landing. Planked
door with strap hinges to attic. 5-bay roof has two tiers of butt
purlins. Stone corbels inside the west and east walls of large
room correspond with those on exterior walls; 1673/ Burgh Manor.
Founded by Sir Joseph Ashe as a grammar school for twelve boys, in
1673, endowed with ?100 and the profits from two sheep fairs in
Downton.
(VCH, Wiltshire Vol XI 1980, page 51; Unpublished records of RCHM
(England), Salisbury).

Listing NGR: SU1748421419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539277

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey