3, High Street

ST6834NW 8/76

BRUTON CP HIGH STREET (North side) No 3

24.3.61

GV II

House with shop in row. C18. Ashlar stone painted; concrete double Roman tile roof between abutments behind parapet; brick end chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 7 bays. Plinth, rusticated quoins, cornice and shallow parapet central door of early C19 pattern with half-round cast iron fanlight over set into sub-arch flanked by attached Doric columns on fielded panelled plinths, with entablature and pediment; to bay 1 a 12-pane shop window with cast iron mullion with semi-circular arched doorway to right; to bay 3 double 16-pane sashes with plain surrounds and then mullion, both lower windows having long moulded hoods on console brackets, with flanking console brackets to cornice and plaster swags above each window. Lead rainwater stackheads on either side. Interior not seen. In early C18 this house known as the "Ropers Tenement", but by 1799 it was the gentleman's residence of John Dampier, probably the same person who built Colinshayes (qv) in Brewham Parish in 1815. (Couzens P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972; VAG Report, unpublised SRO, 1975).

Listing NGR: ST6833934904