Description

TISBURY HINDON LANE ST 92 NW (east side)

4/245 Canonbury House

GV II

Detached villa. Circa 1870. Stretcher bond yellow brick with terracotta dressings, hipped Welsh slate roof, yellow brick stacks with terracotta cappings. L-plan, Italianate. Five-panelled door with semi-circular fanlight in pilastered case with terracotta capitals, to right is segmental-headed plate glass sash with rusticated pilasters with terracotta capitals and foliated frieze. First floor has pair of round-arched sashes over door and round- arched plate-glass sash to right with guilloche ornament to architraves. To left is slightly projecting bay with segmental sash to ground floor and round-arched sash to first, detail as before. Deep eaves on paired cast-iron brackets, segmental-headed dormer to attic with oculus to left. Right return has 2-storey canted bay with segmental-headed sashes to ground floor and round- headed to first, terracotta decoration, C20 casement to left. Left return has tripartite and plate glass sashes, 4-panelled door to left and attached C20 garage with hipped roof. Rear has C20 casements and conservatory, round-headed sash to first floor, 2- storey service wing to right with 4-pane sash and 3-light casement. Interior retains original features including stairs with two turned balusters per tread and shaped tread-ends, stained glass top-light over, 4-panelled doors in moulded architraves, marble fireplaces and plaster ceiling cornices. Included as a good example of the villa in Tisbury, following the opening of the railway to Tisbury in 1859.

Listing NGR: ST9445029782

External Links

• Wikidata Q26587487

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability