Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD PARK
ST 73 SE
(west side)
6/165 The Convent
6.1.66
GV I
Gothic fantasy cottage. Circa 1765 for Henry Hoare of Stourhead
House (q.v.). Rocky limestone with some flint, thatched roof,
stone fantasy stacks. Single-storey with attics. Main range has
canted bay with three pointed openings facing south, central French
windows flanked by windows with Y-tracery and hexagonal leaded
glazing, large stone stack to right has central obelisk pinnacle
with four smaller pinnacles around base. Lower range to right has
central stone porch with pointed opening and planked inner door,
pointed window with Y-tracery either side, right gable end has
bellcote with pointed arched opening and cross finial. Right
return has pointed attic casement, C20 ground floor pointed window
to right. Left return has flanking square corner turrets with
pierced pyramidal cappings with finials, ground floor has three
trefoil-headed leaded windows, attic with trefoil-he-aded 2-light
window, coped verge to gable. Rear range rebuilt 1980s with
facades in same rocky style with pointed casements and pointed
moulded doorway.
Interior: Drawing room has groin vaulted ceiling with-pebble-dashed
finish, pointed niches on west wall flanking window. 1980s gothic
fireplace. Dining room has flagstone floor and stone corbels to
ceiling. Original roof retained. Originally said to have
contained painted panels depicting nuns of different orders and
stained glass from Glastonbury. Little is known of the origins of
this building, but it was presumably built as a picturesque
pavilion for carriage and riding excursions from Stourhead House.
(K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982; N. Pevsner, The
Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST7569034690

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17529969

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)