Polebridge

SUTTON VENY DUCK STREET ST 94 SW (off south side) 4/219 Polebridge

GV II

Farmhouse, now detached house and cookery school. C14 hall house, altered C17, extensions 1902 for W.P. Alexander. Rubble stone, tiled or Welsh slate roofs, brick stacks. Two-bay central hall with cross ranges rebuilt 1902. Two-storey, 5-windowed; casements and sashes. Early C20 gabled porch with pointed doorway and hoodmould to left of hall, four small 8-pane sashes to right, first floor has moulded string course and two 4-light recessed hollow- chamfered mullioned casements with leaded lights. Range to right has two groups of four sashes with hoodmoulds to ground and first floor, family crest to left gable and date 1902 to right, coped verges and moulded finials. Range to left has 2 storey canted bay with sashes and pair of 8-pane sashes to gabled half dormer. Returns have similar sashes of 1902. Rear and interior not accessible at time of survey (July 1985), but interior has former open hall with cusped arch-braced collar truss and closed truss to former service end with arch-braced collar and cusped V-struts, clasped purlins with cusped windbracing. Floor inserted late C17, stairs with square moulded balusters, closed string and moulded handrail and square newels. Formerly known as Church Farmhouse, until alterations early C20, possibly manor house for Great Sutton Manor. (Illustrated in VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8 1965).

Listing NGR: ST9076941517