Trusloe Manor

AVEBURY BRAY STREET, Avebury Trusloe SU 06 NE 4/64 Trusloe Manor 22.8.66 II

House. Early C16, mid C17 and 1986. Sarsen rubble lined with chalkstone. Dressings and porches of limestone ashlar. Stone slate roofs throughout. Originally manor of Cirencester Abbey, rebuilt c1520, and subsequently much reduced. Four roof bays, with cross passage within major room and unheated secondary room on north. Single storey porch and probably north lean-to service room added c1658 by Thomas Trusloe. Rear porch probably C19, and large rear wing with replica porch in course of erection, 1986. Porch has Tuscan pilasters raised on attached pedestals bearing lozenge decoration, the pilasters carrying fragmented entablature and ball finial. Rear porch gabled and stone tiled. Either side of porch, 5-light mullioned and transomed hollow chamfered windows with label moulding. Part of a label mould of former opening survives within porch. Four light similar window to left lean-to, and 3-light window reset in south gable, rebuilt in brick in C18 when building reduced in size. Plinth with large moulding. Door within porch C17 boarded, with moulded frame. Roof hipped and swept down unbroken over lean-to, being an C18 reconstruction of a simple lower lean-to. Interior: Left bay has wide shallow rear stack, probably a C17 insert. Early stair was in north east corner, replaced by stair from rear of cross passage, now removed. Added stack to north room. Roof trusses have queen struts and collars, with double purlins and windbraces to upper purlin. Whole of interior now (April 1986) undergoing repair and remodelling, and blockwork partitions replacing timber framed partitions. Panelling, formerly in upper chamber, to be refixed in main ground floor hall.

Listing NGR: SU0962969858