Seymour Lodge

SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9461 (north side) 12/280 Seymour Lodge 19.3.62 GV II

House, c1820-40, possibly on earlier core, red brick front with ashlar dressings, rubble stone elsewhere, and slate half-hipped roofs. Rear stacks. Two storeys and attic. L-plan. Three- window front with flush quoins and string course and small-paned casements in flush stone surrounds. Three-light windows each side, 2-light to first floor centre over half-glazed door in beaded surround with overlight and hood on brackets. Rubble stone end walls. East end has iron small-paned windows in brick surrounds. Long L-plan rear wing with rear catslide roof and west side projection with half-hipped gable. Small paned iron casements throughout. Interior has similar chamfered and stopped beams throughout. Said to have been a farmhouse called Marsh Farm and to date from the C17, but no obvious signs of early date seen, though a beam dated 1635 was removed in 1889. (E. Bradby, Seend A Wiltshire Village, 1981, 105)

Listing NGR: ST9477661193