Tudor House

ST 99 SE OAKSEY THE STREET (north side)

3/131 Tudor House

12.12.51

II

Former farmhouse, now detached house. Early C17 thoroughly restored in the mid 1960s by Anthony Sanford. Squared and coursed rubble with stone dressings and stone slate roofs with one central rebuilt stone stack. Rectangular main block with low service additions to left and right and rear projecting 1960s kitchen range forming L-shaped plan. South front of 2 storeys and attics, 5 windows. Windows are 2-light cavetto-moulded mullions with flush relieving arches and small leaded pane casements; 2 attic windows in steep gables. Central 1960s doorway with plank and batten door. Wings to left and right have half-hipped roofs; walk- through passage to woodshed on right. Rear front has scattered mullion and casement fenestration, central projecting staircase tower and kitchen wing to right. Interior: lobby-entry with central shared stack: chamfered jambs and oak lintel to fireplace in ground floor room to left; restored framed newel staircase with square newel posts and turned balusters; several plank doors and much of the roof original: butt-purlin, collar-beam structure. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, 1975)

Listing NGR: ST9914293682