Willow House with Gate Piers and Walls, Biddestone, Wiltshire, SN14 (Grade II)

BIDDESTONE THE GREEN ST 8673 (north side) 9/47 Willow House with gate piers 20.12.60 and walls (Formerly listed as Willow House) GV II

House, dated 1730, built for S. Aldbourne; ashlar with stone tiled roof, coped gables and ashlar end wall stacks. 3 storey, 5-window range formal south front with channelled angle pilasters, plinth, 2 string courses, moulded cornice, parapet and small central pediment with cartouche dated 1730. Windows segment-headed in raised moulded surrounds, bead-moulded inner edge. 6-pane attic windows. Ground and first floor windows with keystones to surrounds, central first floor window is round-headed with keystone, imposts and moulded spandrels to surround. 12-pane sashes. Central doorcase, segmental arched with keystone, broken pediment on scroll brackets over. Fielded panel door with segmental overlight. 4 stone steps with C20 iron rails up. Attached to house is coped stone garden wall ramped up to house and to central stone gate piers with caps and ball finials. C20 wrought iron gates. To rear west side, 1908 2 storey range, not of special interest. Interior: Fine panelled room to ground floor right. Stone vaulted cellar.