Description

SUTTON VENY BISHOPSTROW ROAD
ST 84 SE
(off east side)
3/215 Sutton Veny House

GV II

Country house, now nursing home. 1856 rebuilding for Joseph
Everett. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate and lead flats, ashlar
stacks. Regency style. Two-storey, 7-windowed west front;
sashes. Central 2-storey semi-circular bow with domed top, central
glazed door and 12-pane sash either side within Tuscan colonnade,
left and right are two 12-pane sashes. String course to first
floor; sashes either side of bow with three sashes; all in
moulded stone architraves, chanelled rusticated quoins, dentilled
and modillioned cornice to panelled blocking course. Left return
has 2 storey bow with sashes, single storey attached garden room
with French windows and sashes. Right return is garden front with
central 5 bays recessed between 2-bay flanking wings, verandah on
Tuscan columns to centre bays, central French windows and two
sashes either side, first floor balcony over with five sashes,
flanking wings with two ashes to both floors, all sashes in moulded
architraves, channelled rusticated quoins, cornice and blocking
course as front. Rear garden front has Ionic portico, up steps to
French windows with side 8-pane sashes, three sashes to first
floor. Rear 2-storey 5-bay service block with 6-panelled door in
gabled porch to rear entrance, plain ashlar with 12-pane sashes.
Interior: C17 and C18-style features such as large entrance hall
with Ionic columns and round-arched openings, early C18 style
stairs have three turned balusters per open string tread, ramped
and wreathed handrails. C17-style panelling and fireplaces to main
ground floor rooms, 6-panelled doors, enriched ceiling cornices,
drawing room has carved stone fireplace, bolection-moulded
panelling and doors with eight fielded panels. A rebuilding on the
site of a C17 house by Joseph Everett, a local mill owner, to whose
memory the Church of St. John was built (q.v.). The house was
originally known as Greenhill House. (National Monuments Record;
VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965).

Listing NGR: ST8964242339

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587841

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Recommended Books

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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)