66, Stourton Lane

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURTON LANE ST 73 NE (east side) 3/166 No 66 II Estate cottage. Datestone over door: HRH/1850. Flemish bond brick with stone dressings, tiled hipped roof with bands of fishscale tiles, brick stacks. Two-storey, 5-window symmetrical front. Central half-glazed door in gabled stone and brick porch with dated keystone to semi-circular headed opening, two 2-light casements either side with dropped keystones. First floor has five 2-light casements with dropped keystones. Right return has C20 first floor casement. Rear has lean-to extension, 2-light casements. Attached to rear left is single-storey woodshed with planked door, to right are stables with two planked doors and 2- light casements to north side. Said to have been a hunting box for the Stourhead Estate, the initials are those of Hugh Richard Hoare, the 4th Baronet, who made considerable improvements to buildings on the Estate. The cottage occupies a prominent position at the junction to Tower Road. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7734235463