Kingston House

Kingston House is a rectory, now used as holiday apartments, dating from the 18th century. It was significantly altered in 1858 by G.P. Manners of Bath. The building is constructed of coursed rubble stone with a tiled roof and octagonal brick stacks featuring toothing and stone moulded cappings. It presents in a 17th-century revival style. The main façade is two storeys and has an attic, with a ten-window front and numerous gables of varying heights, some projecting from wings. A blocked, chamfered arched doorway with a hoodmould is set within a two-storey gabled porch with diagonal buttresses on the left side of the centre. Flanking the porch are three-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed casement windows. A moulded string course runs along the first floor, primarily defining cross windows. The attic gables contain two-light ovolo-mullioned casements, have coped verges, and feature ceramic ridge cresting. The left return elevation displays large mullioned and transomed casements, with an early 18th-century two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement in the attic. The rear features a two-storey canted bay with mullioned and transomed casements, cross windows, and large mullioned and transomed casements on both floors. Three original attic gables with two-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements are also present. To the left is a square, three-stage tower topped with a leaded spire and a dentilled cornice. Attached to the tower on the left are 19th-century and late 20th-century ranges. Adjoining at a right angle on the north-west side is a barn with a double-chamfered gabled archway and mostly 20th-century casements, including rooflights. Internally, the rectory has four-panelled doors, stairs with stick balusters, and retains the original eight-bay roof with collars.