Seend Close

SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9461 (south side) 12/305 Seend Close (formerly listed as Seend Close 19.3.62 and stable block at Manor House) GV II

Stable court to Manor House (q.v.), now house, flats and stable, c1769 for Ambrose Awdry IV, ashlar-fronted with red brick and ashlar dressings elsewhere. Steep hipped roofs, stone-slated to front, Bridgwater-tiled elsewhere. U-plan group of three separate blocks, originally linked by screen walls. Matching stone eaves cornice to all three. Centre block has slightly projected pedimented centre over infilled former carriage-arch and hexagonal ridge cupola. Ashlar south front has oval panel in tympanum, plain raised imposts and keystone to arch. C20 paired doors, stone band across at impost level and glazing to arch. Two-window range each side of 6-pane windows over plain square coach-entries, the two to left with panelled double doors, the 2 to right with C20 glazing. Red brick rear to High Street has 6-pane upper windows and 12-pane lower windows with flat brick heads each side of centre, and moulded Gibbsian architrave to carriage archway. C20 timber panelling and glazing. To right, two reset early C19 ashlar gatepiers, to left a red brick wall curves out to street, with ashlar plinth and coping and returns to two similar early C19 ashlar piers with short length of wall beyond. In courtyard, west block, still stables, has ashlar 7-window range with 9-pane windows below and 6-pane above, but in bays each side of centre, 6-panel doors in flush moulded surrounds and circular windows above. Ashlar south end has C20 upper window over blank ground floor panel. Rear is red brick and windowless. East block, converted to house c1960, had 7 window range of blank openings, similar to west side on upper floor, ground floor blank windows to outer two bays each side only, the centre windowless, but has four inserted C20 horizontal openings. Ashlar south end is similar to west block, with C20 upper window. Red brick rear has c1960 fenestration. An unusually large scale coach-house and stable group.

Listing NGR: ST9453661073