Bishopstone House

Bishopstone House is a rectory that has been converted into a detached house, built around 1820 by John Lowder of Bath for Reverend T. Bromley. The building features yellow Flemish bond brick and a hipped roof made of Welsh slate, with brick stacks. It is a rectangular structure with a rear service wing and stands two stories tall, displaying a five-window west front. The central entrance consists of a six-panelled door set within a slightly projecting ashlar porch that has a moulded cornice. On either side of the door are two six-pane sash windows with wedge lintels. The first floor has a stone plat band and five nine-pane sash windows, while the roof has boxed eaves.

On the right side, the garden front includes three twelve-pane sash windows on the ground floor, a plat band, and three nine-pane sash windows on the first floor, along with lead rainwater goods. The rear of the house features an attached half-octagonal conservatory built in 1828 by R. Read of Salisbury. This conservatory is made of Flemish bond brick, with diagonal buttresses and small-paned fixed windows, topped with a hipped glazed roof. Gothic-style glazing bars were added in the 20th century. To the right of the conservatory, there are three twelve-pane sash windows, a plat band on the first floor, and five nine-pane sash windows. The rear also includes a two-storey service wing with a glazed door and twelve-pane sash windows, as well as a single-storey outhouse and a flat-roofed garage from the 20th century.

Inside, the house features an open-well staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail, illuminated by a circular dome. There are six-panelled doors with moulded architraves, window shutters, and plaster ceiling cornices that have been preserved. The conservatory was built for Reverend George Augustus Montgomery, who moved to the house in 1824 and died in 1842; his monument can be found in the Church of St John the Baptist. His wife, Cecilia, created several watercolours of the house and church during the 1820s. The building ceased to function as a rectory around 1950.