Gaston Manor

TISBURY HIGH STREET ST 92 NW (east side)

4/233 Gaston Manor 6.1.66 GV II*

Detached house. Late C14, rebuilt C16 and C17. Dressed limestone, tiled roof, axial stone stack with offsets, external stone stack to rear wing. Eight-bay house with 3-bay former open hall, C17 rear wings enclosing courtyard on three sides. Two storey, 5-window west front. C20 glazed door and 5-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement to right, straight joint to left of door with 2-light mullioned casement, C16 two-light mullioned casement with arched lights and 3-light mullioned casement to left. First floor has C20 three-light mullioned casement, two 2-light mullioned casements, 3-light and 5-light mullioned casements. Two bays to right are addition of c1600. Left return is windowless, C17 rear wing to north has 3-light and 2-light casements. South rear C17 wing is 2-storey with 2 and 3-light ovolo-mullioned casements, full dormer to south, east gable end has 2-storey bay with ovolo-mullioned casements, north side has large stone external stack with offsets. Rear of main range has chamfered stone doorway and mullioned casements, C16 round-headed casement to first floor. Interior retains some late Medieval features such as hall fireplace with cusped panels and spandrels to Tudor-arched surround, this stack an insertion to open hall. Four roof trusses survive from late C14; arch-braced open collar trusses to former hall with curved wind bracing, butt purlins and chamfered soffits. Of c1600 are Tudor-arched stone fireplaces in south bays, ovolo-moulded wooden doorway to south room on ground floor and two south bays of roof trusses. South wing has good dog leg stairs with turned balusters to closed string, square newels with finials and wide handrail, probably early C17. Chamfered elliptical headed stone archways between main range and south wing. (Unpublished records of RCHM (England), Salisbury)

Listing NGR: ST9444029492