Colinshays House With Attached Wing Wall To North

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BREWHAM CP Colinshays House with attached wing wall to North

GV II

House. c1815, with substantial later C19 addtions. Local stone cut and squared with Doulting stone dressings; earlier portion has Welsh slates between coped gables, newer section has hipped roof with featured coped gables; stone chimney stacks, the later arranged in diagonal groups. The 1815 portion to North West rustic in character, of 2 storeys with attics, 4 bays. Small pane casements in plain openings with keystones at lower level; bays 1 and 4 coped gabled with attic windows, battlemented parapet between then. On North side of this portion a gable with bell in bell shaped turret over pointed arch doorway and pointed "Y"-traceried sash windows. Later block to South East trapezoid on plain, more formal; 2 storeys, 2 bays. Plinth string and eaves cornices; timber mullioned and transomed windows with small panes set into ashlar surrounds with labels, gables over first floor windows; between bays an ashlar porch in Gothic style with corner buttresses, moulded 4-centre arch doorway, with pair 10-panel doors; plain square plaque over. This portion apparently little altered internally. To North a rubble wing wall leading to tall archway with shield over set into stepped gable leading into the farmyard, a group of unremarkable C19 buildings. House started by one John Dampier, also owner of Brewham Manor about 1815. (Couzens, P, Bruton in Selwood, Abbey Press, Sherborne, 1972).

Listing NGR: ST7065035985