Description

SEEND HIGH STREET ST 9460 (south side) 13/310 Seend House 19.3.62 GV II*

House, c1805-10 for Thomas Bruges, ashlar with low pitched slate hipped roofs and ashlar stacks. Three storeys, formal north and south fronts, square plan. Six-window north front with slightly projected pedimented centre and carved arms in tympanum. Plinth, channelled rusticated ground floor, panelled plat-band, plain raised angle strips and band to upper floors, modillion cornice and parapet. Sash windows, 9-pane to top floor, 12-pane to main floors. Large ground floor sashes have reeded lintel strips, blank arch over and are set in large arched frame with reeded surround. Centre has rusticated piers, rusticated walling and raised arched-headed reeded surround to 6-panel door with traceried fanlight. Projecting Greek Doric porch, paired-columns with fluted necks, entablature with triplets of guttae. West end wall has 3-window range, similarly detailed, centre-broken forward slightly. Sashes to upper floors, blank ground floor windows in reeded arched recesses. South front is 5-window with raised centre and angle piers, moulded cornice, broken forward over piers and reeded string courses stopped at piers. Centre bay has half- glazed door in Roman Doric 2-column porch with pilaster responds, large arched stair light above, breaking string course and top- floor small 3:9:3-pane tripartite sash. Sides have large ground floor 4:12:4-pane tripartite windows with moulded lintel and blank segmental arch over, first floor 12-pane sashes and 9-pane sashes above. East end has flat-roofed addition with basement under. Interior: fine complete Regency interior with mahogany doors in moulded surrounds, plaster cornices, fireplaces with original grates. Geometrical stone staircase with moulded ends to treads and iron rails. Unusual variations on classical detailing throughout. House was built for T. Bruges (1751-1835), Melksham maltster and passed to W.H. Ludlow-Bruges (d.1855) and R.H. Ludlow- Bruges (1907). (E. Bradby, Seend A Wiltshire Village, 1981, 190-5)

Listing NGR: ST9432560919

External Links

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