Seavington House, And Front Boundary Walling And Railing

Seavington House is a detached house built in the early 19th century, before 1839. It is constructed of ham stone ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof with coped gables and brick end chimney stacks. The house has three storeys and three bays, with a plinth, an eaves cornice that includes a secret gutter, and plain end pilasters. The windows are 16-pane sash windows in plain openings that decrease in size. The lower bay features a Regency style six-panel door, accessed by three steps, and is sheltered by an open stone porch supported by Tuscan columns on panelled plinths, without wall pilasters, and topped with a plain entablature and flat roof.

To the south gable, there is a single-storey extension with a swept coping roof, a plain pilaster, and a matching 16-pane sash window. A corresponding north wing was demolished in the 1960s or 1970s for road widening. The interior has not been seen.

The front boundary features a mid-20th century reconstructed stone wall that curves from the north-west corner to the gateway opposite the porch. Beyond this, there is a low stone wall with wrought-iron spearpoint railings, which have arch-braced uncapped standards, matching gates, and curve around to a moulded coped ashlar wall about 1.2 metres high that returns to the south-west corner of the extension. The railings and south walling significantly enhance the setting of the house and the overall streetscape. By 1839, Seavington House was at the centre of the largest farm in the parish.