Compton House

Compton House is a manor house set in grounds, largely rebuilt between 1839 and 1843 after a fire in 1827, by the younger John Pinch of Bath, in a mid 16th century style. The building features ashlar stone walls with crenellated parapets. The front elevation includes short octagonal corner finials with crenellated strings and ogival caps, and has slate roofs. There are groups of clustered octagonal stone stacks on and behind the ridge. The house is 2½ storeys tall and has five windows on the front elevation. To the left and right of the central porch are canted bays that are two storeys high and gabled above. The central porch has a gable over it and features mullion-and-transom windows that are hollow-chamfered with separate labels, consisting of three lights at the front. There are plain shields in niches between the ground and first floor windows, and three-light windows on either side of the porch. The wooden sashes are without glazing bars and date from the mid 19th century. The central porch has octagonal buttressing and finials, topped with a steep gable. The doorway features a four-centred head with a shield of arms above and has two-leaf doors that are glazed in the top half. The rear range on the east elevation has rubble-stone walls and is gabled at the center, with two storeys and eight windows that are mullion-and-transomed, consisting of two and three lights with separate returned labels above. The wooden casements have glazing bars. There are doors at the left hand end, center, and a plank door at the right hand end from the 19th and 20th centuries. The south and west elevations have similar compositions. Inside, there is a staircase in Perpendicular style with trefoil-cusped panelling and panelled newels from the mid 19th century. The entrance hall features an arch-braced roof that is compartmented and supported on wooden corbels, also from the mid 19th century. Panelled doors are found throughout the house.