Rose And Unicorn House

CORSHAM WESTROP ST 87 SE 1/395 No. 11 (Rose and Unicorn House) GV II

House, C17 and C18, rubble stone with stone-tiled roof, ridge and south end stacks and coped south gable. Two storeys, 'L'-plan. West front 4-window range, formerly 2 cottages, coved eaves cornice, 4 first floor 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows and hoodmoulds. Ground floor door to left with hood on brackets, single light and 12-pane window in moulded surround, then door in moulded architrave with pediment on brackets and two 3- light mullion windows with hoodmoulds and relieving arches, one ovolo-moulded, one recessed cyma-moulded. Rear has straight joint between two sections. Left section has flush cornerstones, off- centre curved stair tower with stone-tiled roof reaching into a gable, one window range of 3-light windows to left, ovolo-moulded above, recessed cyma-moulded with relieving arch below, both with hoodmoulds, and, to right, 2-light ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould over door with hood on brackets. Section to right has one ground floor 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window and hoodmould. Rear wing, probably C18, has south side door to left and 2-window range of flush cyma-moulded 2-light windows with dripstones. East end stack and bread oven. Interior: north half of front range has south end massive timber- lintel to Tudor-arched fireplace and chamfered spine beam. South half has bolection-moulded stone fireplace with shelf and fielded panelling to dado level. Walls here and above are stamped with cross motif of central rose and four unicorns. Upstairs south end Tudor-arched fireplace with fluted frieze and stone shelf. House is said to date from 1648.

Listing NGR: ST8867270526