Description

ROUNDWAY POTTERNE ROAD
SU 06 SW
(west side)
5/217 Broadleas
(formerly listed as Broadleas
19.3.62 House)

II

House, c1830-40, extended c1920-30 in matching style, ashlar with
low pitched slate eaves roof and ashlar stacks. Two-storey,
originally with 3-window fronts on three sides, that to south
extended to five c1920-30. Roof has brackets to boarded eaves
soffit. Entrance front has two front stacks, slightly recessed
centre bay and angle strips and 3 first floor 16-pane sashes with
shutters. Ground floor each side has blank elliptical arched
recess framing niche with terracotta statue and flanked by blank
rectangular panels. Centre 4-panel door with side-lights and
cornice on corbels in elliptical arched frame, set in heavy ashlar
corniced porch with Venetian tripartite front opening and arched
side openings. Porch details are unmoulded with corbel-type
consoles under impost band at heads of door and side-light jambs.
Original north and south ends had recessed centre bay, 3 upper
sashes, ground floor centre sash with similar sash in elliptical
arched recess to one side and large canted bay with parapet to the
other, all the windows with shutters. On south garden front two
further bays have been added in mirror image to make 5-window front
with centre and ends projected and canted bays to ground floor of
end bays. Various 3 and 4 storey brick service ranges in north-
east angle. House is said to have been built c1832-4 for a
Devizes builder. From the 1860s it belonged to the Ewart family.
William Ewart M.P. (1798-1869) promoter of the Free Libraries Act
(1850), and the acts for the abolition of hanging in chains (1834)
and of the death penalty for cattle theft (1837), advocate of the
abolition of capital punishment, died here.

Listing NGR: SU0010560164

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536001

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  For the Record
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6