Wingfield House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 November 1962. A C18 Country house. 5 related planning applications.

Wingfield House

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Date first listed
13 November 1962
Type
Country house
Source
Historic England listing

Description

Wingfield House is a country house, now divided into four separate dwellings, dating to the early 18th century with a significant extension in the late 19th century. It is constructed of rubble stone with a stone slate roof, featuring stone stacks with moulded cappings. The house has a rambling L-shaped layout.

The north front, two stories high and with four windows, is the main facade. A late 19th-century two-story porch, located to the left of centre on No. 2, has a Tudor-arched doorway with a hoodmould, a single casement, and a three-light mullioned and transomed casement to its left. To the right are a two-light mullioned casement and a single light. The first floor features a four-light mullioned and transomed casement over the porch, a cross window to the left, and a three-light mullioned and transomed casement with a gable to the right. A projecting bay to the left incorporates a three-light mullioned casement on the ground floor and an oriel above. An entrance to No. 3 is located on the left return of this bay. A single-story wing to the right is a late 19th-century former music room. It has a Tudor-arched doorway to the left for No. 1, a three-light mullioned casement, and a four-light mullioned and transomed casement with a gable. The north gable end features a gabled stack with flanking quadrant bays containing mullioned casements, illuminating an inglenook. The inglenook is decorated with quatrefoil detailing to the frieze and parapet. The garden front of the music room has 20th-century French windows and gabled mullioned and transomed casements under a gabled hipped roof.

The two-story, five-window early 18th-century garden front of No. 1 incorporates central semi-circular niches with two 12-pane sashes on either side of the facade, to both floors. There are thick glazing bars, pilasters rising to a moulded stone cornice, and a decorated lead rainwater gutter, matching the gutter on the music room. The roof is steeply hipped with two attic dormers containing two-light casements. The rear of the main range features large mullioned and transomed casements and a large canted bay to the centre, with gabled projecting wings to the right. No. 4 is a single-story former outbuilding, originally a dairy, located on the left return of the main range.

The interior of No. 1 retains good fittings from the first quarter of the 18th century. It features an open well staircase with two turned balusters per tread, a ramped handrail with Tuscan newels, and is lit from above by a 19th-century oval light. Good doors with four fielded panels, panelled reveals, and moulded architraves are present. The drawing room contains a white marble fireplace brought from No. 26 The Circus in Bath, with fielded panelling above the dado. The music room is a notable late 19th-century space with a deep arch-braced collar truss roof supported on stone corbels. A large inglenook incorporates a segmental-arched opening with a Tudor-arched fireplace; above the arch are the Caillard family arms and a French motto. A pair of trefoiled windows are located at the opposite end of the room, above a segmental arch that previously housed an organ.

Wingfield House was extensively extended in the late 19th century by the Caillard family and was divided into four separate dwellings during the 1940s.

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