Bevis

GREAT SOMERFORD FROG LANE ST 98 SE 3/202 Bevis II House, C16, altered, timber-frame and painted brick with stone slate roof and end stacks. Two storeys. Left side of front is close-studded timber-frame in three tiers with rubble plinth and rubble north end. Triple casement and casement pair above, paired 8-pane sashes and casement pair below. Centre and right side are refaced in painted brick. Door with hood on brackets, then two triple casements above, triangular bay window, blocked door and casement pair below. Roughcast south end wall. Rear is red brick on rubble stone plinth to left, with three first floor casement pairs and one exposed wall-post. Roughcast rear wall to right with one gabled dormer. North end wall has roughcast lean-to addition with c1900 curved bay to front. In C18 two houses, Whitehouse to left, bakery to right. c1910 to 1923 belonged to J.L. Osborne, author of 'Some Villages of North Wilts'. (P. Hobbs, Somerford Magna, 1982 146)

Listing NGR: ST9654783026