Longbridge Deverill House

LONGBRIDGE DEVERILL CHURCH STREET ST 84 SE (west side) 3/180 Longbridge Deverill House 11.9.69

GV II

Rectory, now elderly people's residence. C18, rebuilt c1840. Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings, fishscale tiled roof, brick stacks. 'L'-plan, with services to sides and to rear. C17- style. Two storey and attic, 2-window front. Central half-glazed door recessed in ashlar porch with double studded doors, gabled parapet and plaque with Thynne motto; 'J'ai bonne cause', either side are 3-light mullioned and transomed casements. First floor has two 2-light ovolo-mullioned casements, gabled attic dormers with 1-light ovolo-moulded casements. Gable to left has external stack with diaper decoration, group of three diagonally set stacks with toothed cappings. Attached to right of front is single storey service wing with chamfered mullioned casements and three attic gables, coped verges. Left return has two large 2-storey bays with 4-light mullioned and transomed casements to ground floor, 2 and 3- light mullioned casements to first and attic gable and gabled dormer to right. Rear has large external stack, some C18 brickwork visible, rear service wing with C20 casements and sashes with flat arches. C20 wing and conservatory-style covered corridor with arched lights. Right return of rear range is partly rubble stone with casement with three arched lights and flush 12-pane sash; probably C18. Interior has large entrance hall with stairs; two turned balusters per tread, ramped and wreathed handrail, doors with two arched panels and panelled reveals. Ground floor rooms with Adam- style fireplaces and segmental-arched openings and alcoves, ribbed plaster ceilings. Provided by the Thynne family of Longleat House (q.v. Horningsham CP); which was formerly within this parish.

Listing NGR: ST8674041067