Seend Lodge

SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9461 (north side) 12/284 Seend Lodge 19.3.62 GV II

House, c1700 altered in early and later C19, red brick with decorative strips in black header bricks, ashlar dressings and slate steep hipped roof. Tall brick stacks to rear of main range. Two storeys and attic, 5-window range with 2 hipped dormers. Rusticated quoins, moulded plinth and string-course, moulded timber eaves cornice. Decorative strips of black brick each side of upper windows, paired strips each side of centre window. Windows are 8-pane sashes in flush unmoulded surrounds, possibly early C19 with flush ashlar band between upper window heads and eaves cornice. Ground floor has projecting 2-window square bays each side in matching style, probably early C19, and centre glazed doors in fine bolection-moulded stone surround with broken pediment on consoles and acanthus-cupped ball in pediment. Early C19 side- light each side. East side has added square bay to ground floor. Rear is later C19 rubble stone parallel addition. To left of front a 2-storey section, ground floor C18, raised in C19 with roof hipped to west and tall west stack, cambered-head C19 sashes below, brick band and two 8-pane sashes above. Straight joint in stable (q.v.) suggests that ground floor of this section pre-dates stable. Interior: fine closed string stair with panelled newels and turned balusters. Heavy chamfered centre beams to front rooms. The house of the clock-maker G. Newton, d.1681, probably rebuilt for his son G. Newton. The house was one of the Parish houses, leased to the Newtons and from 1795 to the Schomberg family who bought it in 1873. Captain I. Schomberg (d.1813) was Deputy Controller of the Navy. (E. Bradby, Seend a Wiltshire Village, 1981, 107-8, 198-9.

Listing NGR: ST9466661171