Description

SU 06 NW HEDDINGTON STOCKLEY ROAD

6/138 Manor Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, mid C18 on C17 core, red brick with burnt headers and
ashlar dressings. Plain tile half-hipped roof to main range with
rear stack. Two storeys and attic, double fronted with
irregularly-set early C19 sixteen-pane sashes, two each floor, and
central 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with pediment on
acanthus scrolled brackets. High moulded stone plinth, mouldings
carried down each side of door and cut through for windows, flush
quoins and coved stone eaves cornice. South end wall has similar
plinth with mouldings carried down for ground floor 16-pane window.
Dripcourse and 16-pane sash above, the lintel flanked by flush
ashlar, possibly originally a continuous band, attic 2-light ovolo-
moulded window. A straight joint slightly inset from junction with
rear range suggests that main range brickwork post-dates that of
rear range. North end has moulded plinth, broken for 8-16-8-pane
canted bay. First floor 16-pane sash with flat brick head and
attic 2-light bead-moulded mullion window. Gabled lower rear range
has plinth continued in brick on north and south end walls, north
west and south west flush quoins and 2-storey west elevation.
South end 16-pane, breaking plinth and 12-pane above. West 4-
window range of sashes and casements to first floor, ground floor
ovolo-moulded 2-light each side, door in C20 moulded surround,
matching 2-light to right, probably original door-head with
inserted mullion. Ground floor north room has heavy beamed ceiling
with chamfers and stops. First floor north room has C18 moulded
stone fireplace with C19 grate. Six-bay roof to main range, collar
trusses, the north truss possibly C17 or earlier. The house was
the manor house of Heddington held from 1719 by A. Brooke.
(Wiltshire buildings Record; Wiltshire Notes and Queries, 11,
1899, 270-1)

Listing NGR: SU0012366510

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533032

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