Bathampton House

Bathampton House is a country house dating from 1694, originally built for Francis Perkins and the Mompesson family. It was altered in the 1760s for William Moody. Constructed of rubble stone with dressed limestone detailing, it has a tiled hipped roof and four prominent ashlar stacks featuring fielded panels and moulded cappings. The original U-shaped design incorporated a rear courtyard, which was filled in during the 18th century.

The two-story house, including a basement and attic, has seven sash windows facing the front. The central entrance features a six-panel door with a transom light set within an eared architrave, leading to a semi-circular Tuscan porch. The basement to the left has two recessed, two-light mullioned casements, while the right side features a mullioned casement and two three-light leaded casements. The ground floor showcases three twelve-pane sashes in eared architraves, topped by a moulded wooden eaves cornice. Five hipped dormers are visible, each with a six-pane top-hung casement. Channelled rusticated quoins define the front facade.

The left return presents a blocked window on the ground floor, a two-light mullioned casement in the basement, and a sash window on the first floor, all framed within eared architraves. The rear range features sash windows within 20th-century restored architraves. The right return showcases a large external stone stack to the left, with cross windows to the right. The rear range’s basement includes a 20th-century door, while the ground and first floors have three-light mullioned and transomed windows. The rear, garden front has a three-story, 19th-century ashlar canted bay to the right, with French windows and eight-pane sashes. The basement on the left is characterized by three two-light mullioned casements and a door with six fielded panels within an eared architrave. A pair of flush sashes are located to the left, a six-pane sash sits above the door, and two eighteen-pane sashes with thick glazing bars are centrally positioned. The first floor shows a tripartite sash to the left, a twelve-pane flush sash, and a pair of sixteen-pane sashes within moulded architraves. Straight joints are visible on the rear facade, indicating the former presence of a courtyard.

The interior retains many 18th-century features. The east staircase is likely from the early 18th century, with two barley sugar balusters per open string tread, a wide moulded handrail ramped to the first floor. Attics are accessed via a staircase with columnar balusters. The west staircase was replaced in the mid-20th century with a lift. The southeastern room contains full fielded panelling and an Adam-style plaster ceiling, as well as doors with eight fielded panels. The northeast drawing room showcases a fine white marble Gothick fireplace, rumored to be from Fonthill and dating to the late 18th century, featuring an ogee-headed opening flanked by composite shafts, an elaborately carved frieze depicting allegorical scenes of lawyers and doctors below a coved cornice. A white marble fireplace in the northwest room is likely from the mid-18th century. The house occupies the site of a prior Mompesson manor house; their townhouse is located in Salisbury Close.