Avon House

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 AVON MILL LANE 739-1/4/4 (East side) 23/12/74 Avon House

GV II

House, now offices. Late C18 with early C19 additions, restored 1985. Squared and coursed rubble to basement, render with ashlar dressings, ashlar east bay, hipped slate roof with mid-roof ashlar stacks; wrought-iron gate. PLAN: C18 range facing road with major L-shaped extension to rear and east. EXTERIOR: 2-storey and basement; 5-window ranges. North facade to road has irregular fenestration: two 2-storey, 3-light canted bays with plate-glass sashes, that to centre with wood frames, that to east in plain ashlar reveals with sills. One single-light plate-glass sash to first-floor between bays and plate-glass sashes to each floor under segmental heads to east, outer bay set back with ground-floor sash. Tall, narrow, arched basement doorway with wrought-iron gate between bays and segmental-headed openings to north outer bay at basement level with plank door and to east of east bay. Steps up to doorway with ashlar surround and segmental head in east return. Roof above C18 range has cupola on square rendered base with wooden Doric corner columns and coved top with weathervane. Eastern, set-back range has garage openings to basement floor and segmental-headed windows with plate-glass sashes to floor above. INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room layout or of any architectural features of note. Although extensively altered from its C18 state, the building forms a group with the industrial complex of the Old Brass Mill (qv) and Brass Mill Cottages (qv) across the road to the north.

Listing NGR: ST6584868800