Description

ST44NE WEDMORE CP WELLS ROAD (South side)
Theale
11/234 Great House Farmhouse and
flanking walls

9.2.61

GV II*

Farmhouse, Dated "WB 1670" on 2 small metal ridge pennants; late C18 and late C19 alterations. Coursed and squared
rubble, weathered string at first floor level, coved plaster and dressed stone eaves cornice, hipped slate roof, 2 C20
brick stacks. Bold symmetrical frontage. Two storeys and attic, 5 bays; tall 2-light moulded aullioned and transoned
windows, each light with a later casement with glazing bars, some restored, each window to ground floor with a section
of brickwork above it. Central door opening, moulded and stopped surround, ribbed and studded door. Left return in
conforming style, except centre first floor window with C17 leaded lights; again a central door opening in a moulded
and stopped surround; each door opening with a slated pentice on 2 wooden columns. Many C17 interior features; very
fine well staircase rising to the attic, moulded handrail, pierced baluster panels with carved serpents, newel posts
with elaborate pendants and finials; on the stairs two C17 oil paintings, one a symbolic religious scene in the Flemish
style, The other a Roman head; many C17 and C18 doors and architraves, particularly that to left ground floor room
repeating the motifs of the staircase on its semi-circular head; dog gate to stairs, again with elaboratate carving,
one gate missing at time of resurvey (April 1984); fireplaces to ground and first floor in moulded and stopped stone
surrounds with 4-centred heads, some with moulded cornice shelves; paired window shutters to the majority of ground
floor windows. Section of rubble wall to each side of frontage, each with a circular opening in a dressed stone
surround. (N Pevsner, Buildings of England, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST4538746449

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553393

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)