Description

BISHOPSTROW WARMINSTER ROAD
ST 84 SE
(south side)
3/16 Pump House with boathouse in the
grounds of Bishopstrow House
11.11.76

GV II

Pump house with boat house to rear. Late C18. Square-panelled
timber framing with brick nogging, the north-west front plastered,
Welsh slate roof. Single-storey. Front facing garden has
round-arched ovolo-moulded wooden doorway with imposts anti
keystone, double wooden doors, either side are boarded-up windows
with square ovolo-moulded wooden architraves. Cornice with
pediment over. Returns and rear have exposed timber framing.
Narrow wet-dock in boathouse. On River Wylye in grounds of C17
Bishopstrow House demolished c.1800 and replaced by present
Bishopstrow House (q.v.) 1817, to north of Warminster Road; the
gardens linked to the latter by tunnel (q.v.) under road.

Listing NGR: ST8972543988

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26287979

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