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31, Compton Bassett

Description: 31

Grade: II
Date Listed: 25 November 1987
English Heritage Building ID: 316285

OS Grid Reference: SU0357271929
OS Grid Coordinates: 403572, 171929
Latitude/Longitude: 51.4463, -1.9500

Location: Compton Bassett, Wiltshire SN11 8RE

Locality: Compton Bassett
Local Authority: Wiltshire
County: Wiltshire
Country: England
Postcode: SN11 8RE

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Listing Text

COMPTON BASSETT COMPTON BASSETT VILLAGE
SU 07 SW
9/161 No 31
II
Compton House estate cottage, c1860, chalk rubble renewed in lias,
with brick dressings and stone mullion windows. Stone slate roof
with ridge stack, east end stack and coped gables. 1 1/2 storeys
with projecting cross wing to left. Cross wing has brick angles,
gable finial, 2-light and hoodmould above, 3-light mullion-and-
transom window below. One window range to right with 3-light
below and 2-light above in brick-sided window range to right with
3-light below and 2-light above in brick-sided dormer gable, both
with hoodmoulds. West side of cross wing has porch with brick
angles, coped gable, finial, Tudor-arched ashlar doorway with
hoodmould and G.H. plaque, for George Heneage. Dormer gable to
left. Included as a good example of the large number of similar
estate cottages that are a feature of the village.


Listing NGR: SU0357271929

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.



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