Diana'S House

Diana's House is a gatehouse to Amesbury Abbey, built in 1600. It is constructed of flint with stone quoins and dressings, featuring fissile stone slate roofs. The building has two storeys and is shaped like a triangular block with an octagonal stair tower attached to the south. It includes moulded string courses and eaves, as well as moulded architraves around 12-pane 18th-century windows. The stair tower consists of four stages with double chamfered square stone windows and has ogee roofs, with a band of fishscale slates on the stair tower. An external ashlar stone stack is located on the south-west face of the main block. Above the four-centred ground floor door, there is an inscription that reads 'Diana, her hous 1600.' Diana is said to have been a mistress of Edward Seymour.