Description

ST 76 SE CLAVERTON WARMINSTER ROAD (east side)

7/53 Bassett House and Retaining Walls
to Terrace on east side

25.1.77 II
G.V.
Detached Italianate villa, built as the Aqueduct Hotel in 1836, for George Vivian
of Claverton Manor (q.v.). Ashlar; hipped slate roof with overhanging
bracketted eaves; panelled ashlar stacks to sides. 2 storeys and basement to
garden (east) elevation. The basement projects in slightly advanced sections,
marked by rustication, with glazing bar sash windows to the outer bays and a
central Diocletion window. The main part of the house stands on the basement :
3 bays, the outer ones are set back behind 4-bay arcaded loggias, the central bay
has a hipped roof; flights of steps lead down on each side, pierced parapets;
the house has square headed windows on the ground floor and square headed windows
under arched radiating fanlights, the central windows are triple with small
balconies; architraves around arches; first floor cill band and moulded cornice
over ground floor. Ashlar retaining wall to terrace with pierced parapet. The
drive-front has 4 bays: large pane sash windows in plain architraves on ground
floor with moulded string course over; 3 square headed windows under arched
fanlights on first floor (the outer ones are triple), with a cill band; small
central attic window surmounted by a gable which is broken out of the eaves line.
Central gabled, projecting porch with semi-circular headed doorway and Vivian arms
over. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST7835762660

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26509378

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014