Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURTON LANE
ST 73 NE
(east side)
3/166 No 66
II
Estate cottage. Datestone over door: HRH/1850. Flemish bond
brick with stone dressings, tiled hipped roof with bands of
fishscale tiles, brick stacks. Two-storey, 5-window symmetrical
front. Central half-glazed door in gabled stone and brick porch
with dated keystone to semi-circular headed opening, two 2-light
casements either side with dropped keystones. First floor has five
2-light casements with dropped keystones. Right return has C20
first floor casement. Rear has lean-to extension, 2-light
casements. Attached to rear left is single-storey woodshed with
planked door, to right are stables with two planked doors and 2-
light casements to north side. Said to have been a hunting box for
the Stourhead Estate, the initials are those of Hugh Richard Hoare,
the 4th Baronet, who made considerable improvements to buildings on
the Estate. The cottage occupies a prominent position at the
junction to Tower Road.
(K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7734235463

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26495271

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)