The Prospect

TROWBRIDGE HILPERTON ROAD ST8658 970-0/10/10005 (South East side) The Prospect

GV II

Large house. Circa 1830's, with later C19 and C20 additions. Limestone ashlar. Low-pitched slate hipped roof with lead-roll hips and ridge and deep eaves. Ashlar axial and lateral stacks with cornices. PLAN: The original house is approximately square on plan with its principal rooms on the south east garden front and its main entrance on the south west side. Later in the C19 a large wing was built at the rear [north west] and in the C20 another wing was built on the the north east side. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical south east garden front of 1:3:1 bays, the centre bowed; wooden verandah on the ground floor bowed at the centre, with columns with shafts and spiral trail and with lead-clad tented canopy; tall French casements on ground floor; first floor 12-pane sashes in eared moulded architraves and apron panels. Moulded stringcourse at first floor level around whole building. South west side: Original house on left is of 3 bays, the centre breaks forward, ground floor panelled double doors and later C19 porch with 2 pairs of-panelled columns with composite capitals and entablature, flanking plate-glass sashes with panelled architraves, consoles and cornices; first floor 12-pane sashes in moulded eared architraves with apron panels. Later C19 extension on left 3:1:1 bays with canted 2-storey bay on left and tripartite window on right. Outbuilding wing to north west with taller pavilion at end with pyramidal roof with weather-vane. Rendered C20 wing on north east side. INTERIOR not inspected.

Listing NGR: ST8650258341