Description

The following Buildings shall be added:-

PENTON GRAFTON

SU 34 NW WEYHILL ROAD
Weyhill

4/10000 Hop growers fair booths on
Blissimore Hall acre
GV
II

Range of former hop growers fair booths forming an elongated U-shaped
yard with the rear wall fronting Weyhill Road, Rectory Lane, and St.
Michael's and All Angels Churchyard. Early/mid C19. Cob rear wall
with flint plinth to open-fronted booths with timber posts and king
post trusses; slated roofs. These booths, on a piece of land known as
Blissimore Hall Acre, were erected by a consortium of hop growers
called the Farnham Gentlemen, to market their produce. They are the
surviving remnants of Weyhill Fair, one of the most important historic
fairs in the country which is documented in 1225 and continued until
1959. William Cobbett visited the fair several times and made
reference to it and the hop growers in Rural Rides. Thomas Hardy
immortralised Weyhill Fair in The Mayor of Casterbridge, renaming it
Weydon Priors. The booths are also an important survival of permanent
fair booths which are a rare building type.

Listing NGR: SU3195047926

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26545558

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