Old Swindon House

SO 9324 NE SWINDON SWINDON VILLAGE

16/141 Old Swindon House

4.7.60

GV II

Semi-detached house. Late C18, probably extended early C19. Incised render. Slate roof with one rendered and one brick stack. Basically rectangular plan. Brick outbuildings attached rear right not of special interest. Two-storey, 4-windowed entrance front. Two left-hand bays are set back slightly. Far right-hand bay with tripartite sash windows to the ground and first floors both with moulded architraves. C19 three-panelled door within a flat-roofed open-sided porch with a moulded cornice to the left. Single 12-pane sash above with a moulded architrave. Twelve-pane sashes to two bays set back on the left. Moulded cornice at eaves. Venetian window in right-hand return. Garden front;1:2:1 windowed with triangular pediment over central 2 bays. Venetian windows to first floor of the left and right-hand bays. Canted bay to ground floor of right-hand bay. Twelve-pane sashes with horns to first floor of the central 2 bays. Single 12-pane sash to ground floor set within former doorway. C20 French doors to the left of the latter. Sandstone sundial with a metal gnomon and a segmental hood set within pediment possibly dated 176-. The present garden front could possibly have once been the entrance front prior to the redirection of the main road through Swindon village during C19. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: SO9356724875