Barcote Manor

Heritage listing

Details BUCKLAND BARCOTE SU39NW 2/33 Barcote Manor GV II Country House. c.1876 by Thomas Henry Wyatt for William West, director of Great Western Railway. English bond brick, limestone ashlar quoins and dressings; tile roof; terracotta flues on brick stacks with limestone ashlar quoins. Complex plan. Tudor Domestic style. 2 storeys and attic; 4 bays. 1:1:1:1 fenestration of label moulds over stone mullioned and transomed windows; recessed bay,with French windows to entry in 4-light window, is flanked by square bay with strapwork parapet to front of left gabled wall, and by square gabled bay to right; similar one- and 3-light attic windows; gabled full dormer with bargebaord. Gabled roof with ball finials to kneelers and apex. Bay window with strapwork parapet to right side wall. To rear is gabled timber-framed porch to main entry, having carved oak spandrels to 4-centred arch and diamond lattices to leaded lights. Porch adjoins gabled stair turret with label mould over 4-light stone mullioned and transomed stair light, stepped of base and with stained glass windows. Rear right 7-window range in similar but more asymmetrical style with oriel windows and polygonal turret with pyramidal roof to rear. Interior not inspected but likely to be of interest. (Mark Girouard, The Victorian Country House, 1979, p.443). Listing NGR: SU3196897842 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 250861 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.