Description

TROWBRIDGE
HILPERTON ROAD
ST8658
970-0/10/10005 (South East side)
The Prospect

GV II

Large house. Circa 1830's, with later C19 and C20 additions. Limestone ashlar. Low-pitched
slate hipped roof with lead-roll hips and ridge and deep eaves. Ashlar axial and lateral stacks
with cornices. PLAN: The original house is approximately square on plan with its principal
rooms on the south east garden front and its main entrance on the south west side. Later in
the C19 a large wing was built at the rear [north west] and in the C20 another wing was
built on the the north east side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical south east garden front
of 1:3:1 bays, the centre bowed; wooden verandah on the ground floor bowed at the centre,
with columns with shafts and spiral trail and with lead-clad tented canopy; tall French
casements on ground floor; first floor 12-pane sashes in eared moulded architraves and apron
panels. Moulded stringcourse at first floor level around whole building. South west side:
Original house on left is of 3 bays, the centre breaks forward, ground floor panelled double
doors and later C19 porch with 2 pairs of-panelled columns with composite capitals and
entablature, flanking plate-glass sashes with panelled architraves, consoles and cornices; first
floor 12-pane sashes in moulded eared architraves with apron panels. Later C19 extension
on left 3:1:1 bays with canted 2-storey bay on left and tripartite window on right.
Outbuilding wing to north west with taller pavilion at end with pyramidal roof with
weather-vane. Rendered C20 wing on north east side. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST8650258341

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534849

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)