Description

SHERSTON EASTON TOWN
ST 8485-8585
8/106
Easton Town Farmhouse
12.12.51
GV II

Former farmhouse, now country house. Late C17 with early and late
C19 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble rendered to south-
east front, stone dressings, some brick dressings, wooden lintels
and gabled stone slate roofs with tall, paired end stone stacks,
some rebuilt. L-shaped plan. North-east front of 3 storeys and
attic, 2 windows to C17 section and 2-storey, 1-window early C19
wing to right, 2 gables to C17 range, half-hipped roof to C19 wing.
Scattered 2 and 3-light ovolo-moulded mullioned fenestration with
small pane casements and hoodmoulds to upper floors of C17 wing, 3-
light C20 casement to ground floor. First floor windows have
flush cambered-headed strainer arches. Late C19 gabled projecting
porch to right with plank door. South-east front has 12-pane sash
fenestration. Casement fenestration in brick surrounds to north
wall of rear C19 wing.
Interior. Drawing Room has elegant 1750s pine chimneypiece;
several bar-stop-chamfered beams and circular newel staircase.

Listing NGR: ST8597685961

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26274251

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)