Secular Buildings
Hill Farm house in the High Street dates from the 15th century and has partly original timber framing including a cruck. It has brick nogging and a stone slate roof. Dial House has its origins in the 15th century with its ashlar chimney breast, but the rest is 18th-century red-brick facings. There is a 16th-century timber-framed and painted-brick farmhouse in Spout Lane.
Seend Green House, near the east end of the village, was in existence before the end of the 17th century. It is a plain, ashlar-faced building of three storeys and seven bays. Its porch at the side with pairs of Tuscan columns was added slightly later.
Seend House, west of the parish church, is late-18th-century. It is an ashlar-faced building of three storeys and six bays, with a porch of paired Tuscan columns. It has a pair of lodges, each fronted with four Tuscan columns.
Seend Manor House was built in 1768. It has two storeys, five bays, and an Ionic porch.
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