Wans House

ST 96 NE BROMHAM SANDY LANE

2/63 Wans House 19.3.62 II

Country House, c1820, probably on C18 core, ashlar and rendered brick with slate hipped roofs and brick stacks. 2-storey, 3-window centre set back on high plinth with 2-storey early C19 verandah partly enclosed by projecting single storey bow-fronted wings. Rendered and irregular 2-storey rear range. Main front has moulded cornice and parapet, largely obscured by verandah, slightly projected centre, early C19 double doors to ground floor centre, arch-headed French windows in reeded surround to first floor centre and 12-pane sashes each side. Paterae flanking centre bay on first floor with wheat-ear garlands. Verandah has 6 thin iron columns to ground floor and 8 wooden trellis uprights above with iron balconies between. Slate roof. Main cornice is continued on West side wall. Flanking wings have three 12-pane sashes to bow fronts, raised plinths, moulded sill-courses, panelled cornices and parapets with moulded coping. C20 ashlar-fronted open garden room added to East of East wing. Interior: generally Regency style door and window detail to front range, iron stair rail. Both wings have single room with shallow coved ceiling and decorative frieze. House is marked on 1773 Andrews and Drury map, said to date from 'shortly before 1821' (Pevsner). (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975 462).

Listing NGR: ST9667867570