Description

ST 86 NE & MELKSHAM WITHOUT BATH ROAD (West side) ST 86 SE 1/150 & 3/150 Shaw House

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Large house, now old people's home. 1711 with additions c1840. For Thomas Smith. Ashlar front with stone slate hipped roof, side wings and rear are rubblestone with stone slate or Welsh slate roofs and ashlar stacks. Classical style. 2 storeys and attic. 2:3:2 window front; centre breaks forward. Central 6-panelled fielded door has moulded architrave and segmental pediment. 12- pane sashes have moulded architraves. String course to first floor, modillioned cornice and central pediment with oval wreathed oculus. Parapet with balustrade. 2 dormers to roof. To left is 2 storey, 4 windowed wing of c1840. Sashes with architraves, door to right has broken pediment and is same as door to left of rear. String course and cornice. Ashlar end gable has French window and Dutch gable with oculus and urn finials to parapet. Decorated lead rainwater heads. Garden front to rear of main block has 7 window flat facade and central door with pediment. Wing to right of front is possibly late C17 house remodelled in C18; 2 storeys with attic. 5 windows are 2-light beaded mullions to first floor. 3 doors and cross windows between are separate service quarters. String course. Steeply pitched roof has coped verges and saddlestones. Rear of this wing has beaded 2-light mullions and one 2-light ovolo mullioned window. C20 extension to rear of service wing not included. Interior: entrance hall has bolection moulded fireplace and fielded panelling. Open tread stairs have barley-sugar turned balusters. Library with fielded panelling. 1840's drawing room has moulded plaster cornice, rosette and wall panels. The house was used as a school in early C19. It occupies a prominent position at the end of a straight tree-lined avenue. V.C.H. Wiltshire, Vol. 7, 1953.

Listing NGR: ST8921664994

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)