2014

SU0989 : Bentham House, Bentham Lane, Purton Stoke

taken 12 years ago, near to Purton Stoke, Wiltshire, England

Bentham House, Bentham Lane, Purton Stoke
Bentham House, Bentham Lane, Purton Stoke
Grade II Listed stone-tiled Cotswold limestone house, built circa 1850-52 in vigorous early Victorian Gothic style for William James Sadler on land belonging to the Shaftesbury Estate. LinkExternal link It has two storeys and attics, and four-bays to the front. The entrance is through a two-storey gabled porch in the second bay. This has a moulded arch with hood and a canted oriel over it with pointed transomed lights. The first and fourth bays also two storey canted bays with blind quatrefoils in spandrils and pierced parapets. The windows are stone mullioned and transomed. There are also large dormers to bays 1, 3 and 4, all gabled with carved bargeboards. To the left, a single storey 2-bay billiards room was added circa 1898. The slate-roofed carriage house (out of the picture to the left), built at the same time as the house, is also Grade II Listed. LinkExternal link

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SU0989, 9 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Vieve Forward   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Monday, 17 March, 2014   (more nearby)
Submitted
Tuesday, 18 March, 2014
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 0914 8970 [10m precision]
WGS84: 51:36.3638N 1:52.1650W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SU 0917 8968
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Northwest (about 315 degrees)
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