Bulbridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1951. House. 1 related planning application.
Bulbridge House
- WRENN ID
- sunken-stair-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1951
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bulbridge House is a three-storey building dating from around 1700, which has been reduced and altered by James Wyatt around 1794, with further modifications partly by James Wyattville around 1844. The house features two storeys of pink stucco and hipped slate roofs. The south front includes a string course, a modern cornice, a parapet, and coping that rises at each side. It has a five-bay facade with small upper windows and tall ground floor windows, all of which are glazing bar sashes with louvred shutters. The central door is tripartite and half-glazed with a segmental head.
The east front, which serves as the entrance, has two bull's-eye windows on the first floor to the left and a tripartite sash with leaded glazing and a segmental-headed centre light on the ground floor, introduced in 1933. The centre and right sections of this facade are older, consisting of four bays with a Corinthian doorcase featuring a broken segmental pediment from around 1700 to the left. The north front has two and a half storeys, an angled bay to the left, and a pedimented doorway with a projected fanlight. The west front includes a two-storey recessed bay to the right.
The house is linked to adjacent servant's quarters, which includes Rex Whistler's Temple, built between 1934 and 1939, featuring an elliptic front with Greek Ionic columns and niches on the sides. Inside, Bulbridge House retains a significant number of late 18th-century fittings, including even flock wallpaper in the dining room. The stair hall has a low groined ceiling with thin plasterwork, while the first-floor rooms boast coved, almost barrel-vaulted ceilings to maximize height within the roof space. An elegant staircase from 1794 leads to the first floor and features a gallery.
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