page_title: Little Durnford Manor
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Little Durnford Manor / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Snowdrops, Little Durnford Manor Looking across to the pond in the grounds of the manor. The pond is fed by the River Avon.
context_page_description: Little Durnford Manor is a Grade I listed country house in Durnford, Wiltshire, England, about 3 miles northeast of the city of Salisbury. The current house was built in the late 17th century and remodelled for Edward Younge, a friend of Lord Pembroke, in around 1720–1740.
context_section_description: A drive approaches the main house from the southeast, which is separated from a landscaped park by a strip of trees. The house has two storeys faced with flint and stone chequerwork, with five bays under a slate roof, and central glazed doors set within a modest Tuscan portico. It has a dining room described by Pevsner as "a splendid mid C18 room with a proud chimmneypiece and wall panels of tapestry framed in plaster". The doors feature pulvinated frieze and pediments, and the walls inside the house feature entitled plaster cornice with frieze, and baroque plasterwork, dating to the late 1740s. The main staircase is at the end of the hall and features turned balusters. The service wing was heightened in the early 20th century.
caption: View across to the pond in the grounds of the manor
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