Wincombe Park

Wincombe Park is a country house built in the 1820s for John Gordon. The house features painted limestone ashlar and a Welsh slate hipped roof with stone stacks. It is two stories high and has a three-window east front. A continuous glazed verandah supported by cast-iron posts with a trellis frieze runs along the front, with a recessed centre bay that includes double half-glazed margin-pane doors and side-lights leading to the porch, as well as margin-pane French windows in the flanking bays. On the first floor, there are three 2-light margin-pane casements and deep eaves to the roof.

The right side of the house, which faces the garden, has margin-pane French windows with side-lights on the left and French windows on the right. The first floor features three 2-light margin-pane casements. To the right, there is a two-storey, three-bay service range with 6-pane margin-pane sashes and a half-glazed door with a transom light, along with 6-pane sashes with margin glazing on the first floor. The rear of the house includes 25-pane and 20-pane sashes and a lean-to brick extension. The left side has French windows and 2-light casements, all with margin-panes, and a service courtyard to the left with 6-panelled doors and sashes.

Inside, the entrance hall features 6-panelled doors with panelled reveals, an open-well staircase with cast-iron rod-balusters and wreathed handrails. The main reception rooms have plaster ceiling cornices with acanthus leaf mouldings, shuttered windows, and plain marble fireplaces. Wincombe Park is set in wooded parkland that includes two lakes, which are said to be fishponds of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, located near the source of the River Nadder.