The Estate Office

STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (north side) 6/128 The Estate Office GV II Detached house, now estate office. Late C18. Dressed limestone, Welsh slate roof with coped verge to left and hip to right, rendered'stacks. Two-storey, 3-window south front. Entrance to left return. Central projecting bay with 3-light casement, 3-light casements to side bays and three to first floor, bay has parapet with pierced triangles, added by Colt Hoare c1800. Right return has 6-panelled doors and 3-light casement, 2-light and 3-light casements to first floor. Left return has half-glazed door in recessed porch, moulded architrave around opening, 3-light casements to ground and first floor. Rear has door with 4 fielded panels and integral transom light, C20 steel casements and C19 wooden casements. Interior has 6-panelled doors in panelled reveals. Possible that building originally consisted of L-plan or U-plan, rear filled-in. Known as the Cottage and occupied by the agent in C19, also lived in by the 6th Baronet, Henry Hoare and his wife, whilst Stourhead (q.v.) was being renovated and rebuilt following the fire of 1902. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7760634018