Forton House is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. House. 16 related planning applications.
Forton House
- WRENN ID
- ragged-passage-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 44 SW LONGPARISH FORTON
4/44 Forton House
II
Large house. Early C19. Painted brick, and slate. A tall main block, with lower rear extensions. The front (south-west) is regular but not symmetrical of 3 storeys 3 windows. Low-pitched hipped roof with wide eaves on coupled carved brackets. Walls have rubbed slightly-cambered openings, a 2nd floor moulded stucco cill band, stone cills. Sashes in reveals, one casement in altered ground floor window at the south-east side. Triangular-headed doorway within a stucco porch of 2 columns, with a severely-plain Order, 6-panelled door. The south-east elevation has 3 widely-spaced large openings on 2 floors (the south-west third being the south-east face of the main block), with similar details: sashes to the 1st floor above French windows, which open onto a terrace, the 2 north-east side windows being enclosed within a trellis verandah (glazed at each end) under a hipped slate roof. Other elevations are of vernacular form, with irregular window sizes and patterns.
Listing NGR: SU4190243638
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