Showell Farmhouse

LACOCK CHIPPENHAM ROAD, (A350) ST 97 SW 1/33 Showell Farmhouse 20.12.60 GV II

Farmhouse, c1820 with late C17 attached wing. Main range is red brick with ashlar dressings, slate low-pitched roof, coped gables and end stacks. Formal 2-storey, 3-window front with ashlar plinth, flush quoins, moulded cornice, parapet and flush window surrounds. Twenty-pane outer windows, 12-pane to first floor centre over ashlar doorcase, broad elliptical-arched surround with keystone framing full-width fanlight over 6-panel door and sidelights. Attached wing is 2-storey, rubble stone with slate roof. To left, cyma-moulded 2-light recessed mullion-and-transom window with hoodmould and 2-light window above, centre door in chamfered surround with rounded shoulders. To right is double- fronted stable section with two 2-light beaded mullion windows of C18 type and centre door to each floor. Dove openings to upper floor. Across forecourt is early C18 screen wall, originally with iron railings, now with ashlar block walls between piers to 2 gateways. Rusticated piers with gate stops, cornices and urn finials. Early C19 iron gates. Wing rear wall has chimney gable and 4-light mullion-and-transom window to right.

Listing NGR: ST9094470930