ID: 700002987 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700002987	Record Type: Built Work
Images: 1

Basset Down House (country house; unknown architect, reconstruction by owner William Yorke (Br...; construction probably 15-17th ...)

Note: Family home of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, in Wroughton, Wiltshire.

Titles:

Basset Down House (preferred,C,U,UN,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

country house [300005567] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings, houses, <houses by location or context>, <houses by location: settlement area>, rural houses)

Classifications:

architecture (preferred)

Creation Date: construction probably 15-17th centuries, reconstruction late 17th century, additional reconstructions 1811 and 1882

Creator Display:

unknown architect, reconstruction by owner William Yorke (British architect, active 1694), and owned by Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne (English photographer, 1823-1911) [preferred,VP]

architect Yorke, William (British architect and estate owner, active ca. 1694) Extent: addition [500356809]

owner Yorke, William (British architect and estate owner, active ca. 1694) [500356809]

owner Story-Maskelyne, Mervyn Herbert Nevil (English mineralogist and photographer, 1823-1911) [500032487]

architect unknown (unknown cultural designation) [500125274]

Locations:

Other: Wiltshire [7008180] (Geographic)

Display Materials: stone with Cotswold stone roof

	stone (worked rock) [300011176]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, rock (inorganic material), <rock by form>)

Dimensions: unavailable

Cultures:

British (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Gothic Revival [300021452] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, modern European revival styles)

General Subject:

architecture (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	houses [300005433]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Single Built Works (hierarchy name), single built works (built environment), <single built works by specific type>, <single built works by function>, residential structures, dwellings) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Built Works

.......... Built Works by class: residential structures

Sources and Contributors:
Basset Down House	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ Smith, Disciples of light (1990) 73
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)