Description

SEEND HIGH STREET
ST 9461
(north side)
12/282 Badbury House
19.3.62
GV II

House, mid C18, possibly on earlier core, ashlar-fronted red brick
with slate half-hipped mansard valley roof and rear stacks. Two
storeys and attic, 5-window formal front with plinth, band and
moulded eaves cornice. Twelve-pane sashes in moulded architraves,
smaller scale to first floor, and 3 sloping dormers. Central
half-glazed door in moulded architrave with pediment on brackets.
North end wall is red brick with fine moulded brick dentil cornice,
south end wall is red brick with roughcast gable, ashlar band and
fine moulded brick modillion cornice. Interior not inspected.
House was recorded in deeds back to 1620, in 1690 was a malting
house and recorded as such until 1817, owned by Ring family,
blacksmiths 1703-66, Rutty family, farmers 1766-1817 and Tayler
family 1817-84.
(E. Bradby, Seend A Wiltshire Village, 1981, 171, 199-200)

Listing NGR: ST9472161181

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26536282

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)