Gaston Manor

Gaston Manor is a detached house located on Tisbury High Street, dating from the late 14th century, with rebuilding in the 16th and 17th centuries. The building is constructed of dressed limestone and features a tiled roof, an axial stone stack with offsets, and an external stone stack on the rear wing. It has eight bays, including a three-bay former open hall, and 17th-century rear wings that enclose a courtyard on three sides.

The west front is two stories high with five windows. To the right, there is a 20th-century glazed door and a five-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement. To the left of the door, there is a straight joint leading to a two-light mullioned casement, a 16th-century two-light mullioned casement with arched lights, and a three-light mullioned casement. The first floor features a 20th-century three-light mullioned casement, two two-light mullioned casements, and both three-light and five-light mullioned casements. The two bays to the right are an addition from around 1600.

The left return of the building is windowless, while the 17th-century rear wing to the north contains three-light and two-light casements. The south rear wing, also from the 17th century, is two stories high and features two and three-light ovolo-mullioned casements, a full dormer to the south, and a two-story bay with ovolo-mullioned casements on the east gable end. The north side has a large stone external stack with offsets. The rear of the main range includes a chamfered stone doorway and mullioned casements, along with a 16th-century round-headed casement on the first floor.

Inside, the manor retains several late Medieval features, including a hall fireplace with cusped panels and spandrels in a Tudor-arched surround, which is an insertion into the open hall. Four roof trusses from the late 14th century remain, featuring arch-braced open collar trusses with curved wind bracing, butt purlins, and chamfered soffits. From around 1600, there are Tudor-arched stone fireplaces in the south bays, an ovolo-moulded wooden doorway to the south room on the ground floor, and two south bays of roof trusses. The south wing has a well-crafted dog leg staircase with turned balusters on a closed string, square newels with finials, and a wide handrail, likely from the early 17th century. Chamfered elliptical headed stone archways connect the main range and the south wing.