Description

TISBURY HINDON LANE
ST 92 NW (east side)

4/245 Canonbury House

GV II

Detached villa. Circa 1870. Stretcher bond yellow brick with
terracotta dressings, hipped Welsh slate roof, yellow brick stacks
with terracotta cappings. L-plan, Italianate. Five-panelled door
with semi-circular fanlight in pilastered case with terracotta
capitals, to right is segmental-headed plate glass sash with
rusticated pilasters with terracotta capitals and foliated frieze.
First floor has pair of round-arched sashes over door and round-
arched plate-glass sash to right with guilloche ornament to
architraves. To left is slightly projecting bay with segmental
sash to ground floor and round-arched sash to first, detail as
before. Deep eaves on paired cast-iron brackets, segmental-headed
dormer to attic with oculus to left. Right return has 2-storey
canted bay with segmental-headed sashes to ground floor and round-
headed to first, terracotta decoration, C20 casement to left. Left
return has tripartite and plate glass sashes, 4-panelled door to
left and attached C20 garage with hipped roof. Rear has C20
casements and conservatory, round-headed sash to first floor, 2-
storey service wing to right with 4-pane sash and 3-light casement.
Interior retains original features including stairs with two turned
balusters per tread and shaped tread-ends, stained glass top-light
over, 4-panelled doors in moulded architraves, marble fireplaces
and plaster ceiling cornices. Included as a good example of the
villa in Tisbury, following the opening of the railway to Tisbury
in 1859.

Listing NGR: ST9445029782

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587487

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)