Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER GASPER STREET
ST 73 SE
(off north side)
6/122 The Old Laundry
GV II
Laundry, now detached cottage. Mid C17, altered C19. Rubble
stone, hipped thatched roof, brick stacks. U-plan. Two-storey, 3-
window west front facing New Lake. Planked door to right of
centre, 2-light casement to right and 3-light casement to left.
First floor has three 2-light casements. Attached to right return
is large early C19 two-bay drying loggia with two elliptical-arched
openings to south and to ends. Left return has 3-light and 2-light
casements to rear. Rear of main range has planked doors within C19
2-bay lean-to porch with elliptical-arched openings, one 2-light
casement to first floor. Wing to north has 2-light casements and
drying loggia to gable end. Wing to south has 2-light casements.
Interior has chamfered beam with ogee and bar stops, planked doors,
blocked open fireplaces. Probably converted to use as a laundry
for Stourhead Estate and the drying loggias added in early C19, the
latter are very similar to a loggia on north side of The Spread
Eagle (q.v.).

Listing NGR: ST7690332964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26494808

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)