Fitz House

ST 93 SE TEFFONT THE STREET (west side)

1/160 Fitz House

6.1.56

GV II

Detached house. Mid C17 with wing of 1700, 1920s alterations. Dressed limestone, two-span tiled roof, gable-end rendered stacks. L-plan. Two-storey, 3-window front. Central door with 4 fielded panels in gabled stone porch, either side is 4-light hollow- chamfered mullioned and transomed window with hoodmould. First floor has 4-light recessed chamfered mullioned window with hoodmould either side of blocked window with inserted square chamfered light. Roof has coped verges. To left is 2-storey wing projecting to front, blocked chamfered doorway and 2-light mullioned window to right return, gable-end to front has 3-light mullioned window to ground floor, two 2-light mullioned windows to first floor and one 3-light mullioned window to attic, stone lozenge-shaped tablet has lettering: R/FITZ/1700/M. Left return of wing has three 2-light mullioned windows, recessed chamfered doorway with sidelight under hoodmould and one 3-light mullioned window. First floor has two 2-light, two 3-light and one 2-light mullioned windows; all recessed chamfered, wing has pantiled roof. Right return of main range has lean-to extension with 2-light mullioned window. Rear has 2-light mullioned windows to gable-end of wing, main range has pantiled lean-to porch to right, 3-light and two 2-light mullioned windows to left, first floor has 1-light, 3-light and two 2-light mullioned windows. Interior has doors with 6 fielded panels, moulded cross beams in room to left of entrance hall, several square-headed moulded stone corner fireplaces and one Tudor-arched stone fireplace. Sun Insurance disc over front door. Wing of 1700 said to have been a wool store until its conversion for living accommodation in 1920s. The Fitz family were important freeholders in Teffont Magna from C17 until early C19. (VCH, Wiltshire Vol 8, 1965.)

Listing NGR: ST9887032097