Box's Historic Buildings

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Coles Farmhouse of 1648 was built during the English Civil War and the Commonwealth government

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Ailsa Craig, Littlemead
House, early Cl9, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roof, coped gables and centre ridge stack. Two storeys, 2-window range off flush chamfered 2-light mullion windows. East end wall door in porch. West end window in former doorcase. Rear lean-to.

Alcombe Manor
House, mainly late C17 and C18 but with late medieval origins, altered and extended in C20. Rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. Two storeys and attic. Rambling plan. East front in 3 sections. Centre section, L-plan, late C17 or early C18, has coped gables, end wall stacks and hipped dormer to east front. Recessed ovolo moulded mullion windows, Two 2-lights to first floor and C20 5-light below. North gable has attic 2-light and rear wall one ground floor 2-light. Rear wing has, on north side, small 2-light window with hoodmould to each floor, lower window part blocked, and then, set slightly higher, 2-window range, 2-light and 3-light both with hoodmoulds to first floor over ground floor 2-light and 4-light with hoodmould. West end wall has attic and first floor single lights with hoodmoulds. Right section has north end stack, upper C18 2-light flush cyma moulded window to front and rear and ground floor front C20 door with hood on brackets and C20 Morley family armorial panel over. To right small late medieval 2-light window with cusped pointed lights. Rear ground floor has two C20 small 3-light windows imitating medieval window. At right angles, running east from north end, is 2-storey range with mullion windows, dated 1916 on rainwater head. Left section of main front, apparently C18, has coped south gable and flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, 4-light to first floor front, 3-light and C20 two-light below, 3-light to south end first floor and mullioned stone-tiled square bay window below. Running west from south end is mansard-roofed range with end wall stacks, apparently late C18, but with one earlier 3-light ovolo-moulded window to rear. South front has 2 dormers, first floor 3-light and two 2-light windows separated by central long stair light with transom and ground floor C20 stone tiled square bay, 2-light window and left side C20 lean-to connecting to c1930 large crosswing, gabled to north and south. Interior not inspected. (N. Pevsner: Wiltshire 1975, 210.)

Amberley and Cobden House, Hazelbury Hill
(formerly listed as Nos I and 2 Townsend Villas)
Two houses, C17 or early C18, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roofs, coped gables end wall stacks and ridge stack. Two and a half storeys.

Cobden House has formal double front with 2 dormer gables, moulded conices over ground and first floors, raised side strips and moulded plinth. Two 16-pane attic windows with cornices over, 16-pane windows to main floors and central blank 2-light flush cyma-moulded window over door in raised moulded surround with hood on carved brackets. Cl9 door. C19 paralled rear range.

Amberley, to left, has one dormer gable and 2-window range below. Moulded plinth. Attic 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with dripstone, first- floor originally two 2-light recessed hollow-moulded mullion windows with dripstone, one altered for C19 sash, and ground floor Cl9 sash and door in chamfered surround with hood on brackets. Fragment of a dripcourse to left. North end lean-to and C19 parallel rear range.

Ashley Farm House and Front Piers and Railings, Wormcliff Lane
House, early C18, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys, 3-window range symmetrical front with bead-moulded flush mullion windows and hoodmoulds. Leaded light. Three dormer gables with 2-light windows, first floor originally with 2-light to centre and 3-light outer windows, but outer right window replaced by 2 C18 12-pane sashes with concave-sided diamond light between and hoodmould over, ground floor 3-light windows flanking central door in bead-moulded surround with hood on brackets. East end wall has 9-pane ground floor sash and 12-pane sash above, both in bead-moulded surrounds. Paired rear wings with coped gables and north end stacks. West wing has dormer gable with 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould over similar 3-light window and ground floor long hoodmould over 3-light bead-moulded window and later 2-light window. East wing is similar, but attic window is bead-moulded and ground floor has single 3-light bead-moulded window. Interior: ground floor has bead-moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with fielded-pallened stone seats within. Attached low wall connecting to front pier and railings. Two central ashlar corniced piers with urns and iron spearhead gate flanked by low coped wall with spearhead rails terminated at plain piers.

Ashley Farm House, Barn to North East of, Wormcliff Lane  (formerly listed as Barn with Dovecote at Ashley Farm)
Barn, early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and opposed gabled projecting cart entries. Flush quoins and 2 rows of vent loops to side walls. Projecting west gable is 2-storey with dovecote over cart-entry and ridge stone-tiled lantern. Entries are through bead-moulded windows with dripstone in coped dormer gables to each side of main gable. South side has 2-light window, north side has single light over chamfered single light, also with dripstone. Squared rubble lean-to to left of cart-entry. Attached at north end, squared rubble, Bridgwater-tiled stable with coped north gable. West door flanked by 2-light window each side and with central coped dormer gable over.

Ashley Grove Lower House, Doctors Hill
House, now 2,c1820-30, ashlar with slate valley roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic, 3-window range. Two C20 dormers. Raised band, first floor sill course, moulded cornice and parapet. Twelve pane sashes. Extensions each end, to left, late Cl9 or early C20 stone extension with12-pane sash over door with sidelights in moulded pedimented frame and sash window each side. To right, early C20 extension, roughcast with large glazed gabled porch under 12-pane sash, and hipped roof. Taller similar range behind with hipped roof and upper storey slightly set back.

Ashley House, A4
2/3 Ashley House (formerly listed as West Ashley House and East Ashley House)
House, now subdivided, c1840, ashlar with slate roofs and ashlar stacks. One storey and attic with large basement storey to south front. Asymmetrical classical villa with principal fronts to west and south. Heavy classical to Italianate detail. Basement has channelled rustication with large torus moulding over, main features at right end of north and west fronts are framed in raised rusticated quoin pilasters with moulded bases and caps. Moulded cornice all around and moulded eaves cornice over attic. All windows are 4-pane sashes, larger and with architrave frames to principal floor. East entrance front has large scale pedimented Roman Doric portico at right side, pilaster responds and arched doorway with double doors and traceried fanlight. Small square dome over. Return on north front has arched recess similar to front door and attic window over. To right central 2-window range with channelled basement and then pavilion, projecting with pilaster quoins, applied pediment to attic and main floor window in elaborated architrave with stone balcony on heavy brackets. Return on west front has canted 3-storey bay to left one-window range centre and right end projection with pilaster quoins and canted 3-storey bay. Channelled basement to centre. South end wall stack. To left of east front is service range, first 2-storey with infilled elliptical carriage arch in rusticated walling flanked by doors in flat porches. Attic floor over, then, running east, single storey 4-window range of 12-pane sashes in architraves breaking through a raised band. At east end, 2-storey pavilion with hipped roof, recessed square upper window and advanced lower floor with quoins, raised band and 12-pane sash breaking band. Property is now divided into four, known as East Ashley House, Lawnwood, Ashley Groome and Ashley Mews.

Ashley Leigh, Wormcliff Lane
House, late C18 and early C19, ashlar and some rubble stone with Bridgwater-tiled main range. Two storeys. Main range is part ashlar fronted of c1820-30 but with rubble stone west end, possibly earlier but incorporated under overall moulded cornice and parapet. Coped gables, end wall stacks and ridge stack between the two parts. Ashlar section is 2-window range of 12-pane sashes, paired to left on each floor, single to first floor right over 6-pane Regency style door with hood on brackets. Floors are framed by raised strip at angles and across at platband, first floor sill-course and under cornice. West section, one window range with upper triple window, 8-pane sashes with taller centre light, ground floor similar arrangement with door and flanking 8-pane lights. At east end, ashlar, stone-tiled range with coped gable, in form a schoolroom or chapel, single-storey with blocked centre door reached by stone steps up and 12-pane sash each side. East end coped gable, 12-pane sash and blocked 2-light gable window. To rear of main range is early C19 ashlar former pair of houses with slate mansard roof, coped gables, end-wall and ridge stacks. Two storeys, 3-window range of 12-pane sashes with raised band and sill course. Three upper sashes, ground floor 2 sashes and 2 doors, alternating, doors with hoods on brackets. Left door is blocked.

Ashley Leigh, Gate, piers and railings to Ashley Leigh
Front railings and gate, early C19, wrought iron on ashlar and rubble stone base. Spearhead iron rails and gate with spearhead half-length dog bars to gate and short length each side. Gate is flanked by decorated uprights. Rails curve at right end to a rusticated ashlar pier with pyramid cap and are then ramped down to a plain ashlar pier.

Ashley Manor, Wormcliff Lane
Manor House, C17, with earlier origins, squared rubble and ashlar with slate and stone tiled roofs. Coped gables. Two storeys and attic. Rambling U-plan. East front, probably refronted in early C18, is ashlar with ridge stack to left, 3-window range with 2 coped dormer gables. Two upper C19 sashes with hoodmoulds, 3 first floor thick glazing bar 12-pane sashes, outer ones with hoodmoulds and ground floor stepped moulded dripcourse over two 12-pane sashes in bead-moulded surrounds flanking central door in moulded architrave. To left is rubble stone end gable of south wing, probably C16 or early C17. One first floor 12-pane sash in bead-moulded surround and door in bead-moulded surround with dripcourse continued from main front stepped over. To right, smaller projecting gable with upper 8-pane sash and dripstone. South wing is in two sections with straight joint between and ridge stack with two diagonal shafts at original end wall. To right, one C20 3-light mullion window over 2-light and single light, both recessed chamfered, then half-glazed door in bead-moulded surround with dripstone. To left, at lower level, another bead-moulded doorcase with sash to left and eaves-breaking hipped dormer with 12-pane sash above. Behind ridge stack is chimney gable with attic single light and first floor 2-light window, both with hoodmoulds. South front continues to west with paired gables, later C17, each with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded windows and hoodmoulds, 3 similar C20 first floor windows with hoodmoulds and ground floor two C20 doors and a leaded casement, all with hoodmoulds. West end wall stack. Behind is central gable with lower wing running north. Behind west end is north facing gable with corner stack and 2-light attic and first floor windows with hoodmoulds. To north, screening rear court is outbuilding with 2 west side oval lights and screen wall with moulded doorcase and 2 oval lights, connecting to west end of north wing. North wing is probably late C17, altered in early C20 and extended to west in late Cl9 and early C20. Original range is squared rubble with slate roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Moulded plinth, flush quoins and dripcourses over main floors. Three tall coped dormer gables with dripmoulds over windows and 5-window range below. All windows are early C20 with chamfered stone surrounds and timber mullions and transoms. C20 leaded lights. Central projecting rebuilt gabled porch with original 2-columns supporting shell hood. Bead-moulded doorcase. Lower gabled extension to left with Tudor-arched bead-moulded east end door. North front continues to right in two sections, late Cl9 and early C20. Coping and ridge stack between. Two window range to centre with dripmoulds over early C20 timber mullion-and-transom leaded lights and one stone tiled ground floor square bay. Right side, early C20, has broad gable and upper 4-light mullion-and-transom stone mullion window over stone-tiled square bay. Manor of the Long family during C16 and C17, owned by the Northey family from C18 to C20. Marked on F. Allen map of 1630.

Ashley Manor, Gatepiers to Ashley Manor
Gatepiers, early C18, rusticated ashlar with rebated angles on inner face, moulded cornices and ball finials. C20 iron gates.

Baker Monument in Churchyard - ALL monuments see later

Barton, The Barton, Ashley No. 4 (formerly listed as part of The Barton)
Three cottages, now house, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof-and end wall stacks. One and a half storeys, double fronted with 2 dormer gables and two 2-light recessed mullion windows with hoodmoulds to each floor. Upper windows are hollow-moulded, ground floor left has ovolo-moulded mullion and ground floor right is ovolo-moulded. Central door in flush chamfered doorcase. Extension to right with Bridgwater tiles and end wall stack. Rear of original range has mostly C20 windows, one ground floor original, mullion window. Formerly Nos 3 to 5 (consec) The Barton.

Barton, The Barton, Ashley Nos 1 and 2 (formerly listed as part of The Barton)
Pair of cottages, late Cl7 or early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables, end wall stacks and ridge stack original. One and a half storeys. Original range has 2 dormer gables, each with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould. Similar window to ground floor right, C20 2-light window replacing a door to left, then door and 2-light window with hoodmould, flush frame and moulded mullion. South end extension has ground floor door to front and gable end upper 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with hoodmould, C20 window below. Coped south gable. Rear of original range has dormer gable to left and 2-light window over 3-light window, both recessed ovolo-moulded with hoodmoulds. To right a gabled rear wing with one reset similar 2-light window and hoodmould.

Bayly Monument

Bear Cottages and The Bear Inn
The Bear Inn and Nos 1 to 3 (consec) Bear Cottages
Inn, early C19 attached to range of late C17 or early C18 cottages. Inn, facing High St, ashlar with slate low-pitched hipped roof. Two storeys, 3-window range, the right side canted forward. Raised plinth, floor band, moulded cornice and parapet. Three first floor 12-pane sashes, ground floor 16-pane sash, double doors in projecting Roman Doric ashlar porch, 2 columns and pilaster responds, and, to right, ashlar canted bay with 12-pane front window and 8-pane side window. Twelve-pane sash to each floor of west end wall. Bear Cottages, to rear, are at a lower level, facing east. Rubble stone with stone tiled roof, axial ridge stack and corner stack on wall-face. Coped north gable. Two and a half storeys with 2 coped dormer gables, each with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould. Four-window range to first floor of sash windows in bead-moulded surrounds, a pair to left, single to centre, narrow single with thick glazing bars and then large single window to right. Ground floor, from left, a row of mullion windows 2-3-2 lights with dripstone, 6-panel door to No 1 in chamfered doorcase, a pair of 12-pane sashes, and a 6-panel door to No 2 in timber porch. North end wall has 2-light recessed cyma-moulded attic mullion window and bead-moulded ground floor single light. Rear wing with coped west gable and paired upper 12-pane sashes. Attached is No 3, a later extension with coped west gable and west end stack, 2 upper 12-pane sashes, ground floor casement pair and door in chamfered surround. C20 2-storey extension beyond.

Bell House, B3109 (formerly listed as Chapel Plaster Cottages)
Inn, now house, apparently C17 but possibly incorporating a pre-Reformation hostel associated with Chapel Plaister (q.v.). Rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables and roof hipped at south-west angle. L plan, one and a half to 2 storeys. West front has original range of 2 dormer gables with recessed hollow-moulded 2-light windows and hoodmoulds and similar ground floor window adjoining former door in flush frame. North end stack. L.H.Grimm drawing of 1790 shows 3-light window adjoining door. North end addition, not in 1790 drawing, has north end stack, dormer gable with similar 2-light window and hood and ground floor casement. South front is 2-storey with ridge stack and wallface stack to left. Upper 3-light flush cyma-moulded window and 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window. Ground floor 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window with hood, C20 glazed door with drip over and 2 casement pairs, C19 and C20. East end wall has C19 casements and corner stack. Rear has one upper 2-light flush bead-moulded window and one bead-moulded ground floor 8-pane window. Lean-to addition. Inner segmental arched stone doorway with dripstone. In C18 the Bell Inn was associated with the highwayman, John Poulter, known as Tom Baxter.

Belle Vue, High Street
House, possibly C17 origins, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks Two storeys, gable ended to street. East front has one first floor 2-light bead-moulded mullion window with hoodmould and ground floor, from left, small 2-light timber mullion window, ovolo-moulded single light with hoodmould and 3-light bead-moulded window with hoodmould, the mullions removed for C20 window. South gable end is re-fronted in ashlar with C19 shopwindow, door to right and pair of sashes above. West side obscured by Cl9 single storey shop and C20 garage, 2 mullion windows with hoodmoulds to first floor. Stone tiled north-west wing.

Blind House, The Blind House
Lock-up, early c18, ashlar, square plan with octagonal stone dome and ball finial and north-east baluster-shaped stone chimney. Raised plinth and moulded stone cornice. Centre breaks forward slightly with arched doorway and studded plank door. Pointed north window with square opening over. Attached to right, short length of ashlar wall with coping ramped down to pier with moulded cornice and rounded cap. Scheduled Ancient Monument Wiltshire 252.

Blue Vein Farmhouse
Farmhouse, C17, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. One and a half storeys. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. At left end, section with lower pitched roof, coped gables, end wall stacks and one ground floor 3-light window. Straight joint to right and one window range with coped dormer gable and 3-light window to each floor. C20 porch to right of ground floor with reset 2-light window. Coping and ridge stack to right. Then 2-window range, slightly projected. Coped dormer gable over 3-light windows to each floor, then smaller dormer gable with 2-light window over single light. Straight joint to right, ridge stack over and end section built out to front with C20 three-light window, coped east gable and paired small opening in gable apex. Rear has dormer gable with 2-light window and similar window below to centre section and dormer gable with 2-light window to left section.

Blue Vein Farmhouse, Cottage off footpath about 200m east of Blue Vein Farmhouse (formerly listed as Blue Vein Farmhouse)
Cottage, late medieval and C17, rubble stone with slate roof, coped west gable and west end stack. Single storey and attic. One room plan with east end stair. North front has chamfered Tudor-arched doorcase, 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and buttress to right. Central hipped dormer with 2-light ovolo-moulded window. One rear ground floor 3-light ovolo-moulded window. East end wall has gable set back with dripmoulded coping over main wall. Central small rectangular stair light. To left, upper blocked small chamfered 2-light window and lower blocked 4-light small flat-headed window with pointed heads to lights. Interior has Tudor-arched flush west fireplace, chamfered and stopped centre beam and east side curving stair. Ruinous condition 1985.

Boundary Marker at NGR ST, A4

Boundary Marker. Dated 1835, for Bath Turnpike Trust. Cast iron half-hexagon with half pyramid top. Reads "Bathford/1835/Box/--- PIKE TRUST".

Boundary Post on Box Bridge, A4
Boundary Post, dated 1835, cast-iron, triangular section with 'Bath Turnpike Trust' on leading edge, 'Bathford' on west side and 'Box' on east side. Half buried. Also included on the list for Bathford, Avon. Item 2/16.

Bowdler Monument

Box House, Bath Road (incorrectly listed as 3 Church Lane)
House, c1810-20, built for the Rev. I.W.W. Horlock, patron and vicar of Box for his own use, and used as Box Vicarage until 1874 when his son Rev. H. Horlock retired. Ashlar with slate hipped valley roof and 2 ridge stacks each side. Three-storey, double pile plan, 3-window range to each front. Plinth, 2 floor bands, moulded cornice and parapet. West front has three 9-pane upper windows, three 12 -pane first floor windows and projected ground floor with mid Cl9 Jacobean-style pierced parapet. Ground floor either original or early C19 with two 12-pane sashes each side of open screen of 2 Ionic columns in antis with panelled frieze and rosettes over columns. Overall moulded cornice. Main door in arched flush surround with fine metal traceried fanlight, traceried side lights and 6-panel door. Panelled thin frame with roundels at upper angles. East front is similar but without projecting ground floor, two 12-pane sashes each side of similar central arched doorway with metal traceried fanlight and side lights, but C20 door. South side similar but door and first floor window omitted for 12-pane stair light at half-level and ground floor right has projecting square bay with 12-pane sash to front, 8 pane side sashes, cornice and Jacobean-style pierced parapet. North side has mid Cl9 2 storey addition and further parallel single storey range. Fine interior with cross and axial passages, traceried fanlights to inner ends of front and rear halls, panelled doors and rich plastered ceilings to front hall and both front rooms. Less ornate ceiling to rear hall and moulded plaster cornices to rear rooms each side. Marble front hall fireplace. Plain staircases from axial passage each side.

Box House, Entrance gates, piers and flanking walls to Box House
Entrance gates, piers and wall, early to mid C19, small ashlar block wall with ashlar coping and caps to piers. Two gate piers with corniced caps and pyramid capstone on one only. Early C19 iron spearhead gates. Curved wall each side to outer ashlar piers, corniced with pyramid caps. Short length of coped wall to left of outer left pier, ramped down. Long length of coped wall to right of outer right pier is not included in listing.

Box House Cottage, Church Lane
Service cottage to Box House, Cl9, ashlar and squared rubble with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. Two storeys, main front double-fronted with two 2-light flush chamfered windows to each floor and central door with reset datestone over, I.P. 1696. Right side addition has one window range of similar windows and additional similar window to right replacing a door. Included for group value.

Box Primary School and School House
Primary School, 1874-5 by J. Hicks of Redruth, extended 1894, small ashlar block banded in rock-faced rubble stone with Bridgwater tiled roofs and crested ridge tiles. Single storey long school range with 2-storey house at east end. Gothic style. Near symmetrical main front of 2 projecting wings with coped gables, crocketted near apex, flanking recessed centre with smaller, slightly projected central gable. Central gable has 3-light window in pointed frame, lights with ogee heads, wings have similar window flanked by ogee-headed single lights. Voussoirs alternate ashlar and rock-faced blocks. To left of centre gable C20 main door, to right, 2-light flat-headed window and pointed-arched doorway with Y-tracery overlight, inscribed 'Girls and Infants' on lintel. Left wing is extended to left with similar doorway inscribed 'Boys Entrance' at base of a thin ashlar clock tower rising to a gabled clock face with clasping square pinnacles and ashlar pyramid roof with 2 finials. Extension to left with 2-light flat-headed window and west gable. Taller gabled parallel wing behind. At right end, School House, with pointed arched door and window over to left of 2 storey canted bay with steep hipped roof carried through as cross wing to coped north gable.

Brown monument

Bullock monument

Byway, Chapel Lane
House, C16 and early C17, rubble stone, part ashlar fronted with cement tile roofs. Two storeys, L-plan. Moulded coped west, north and south gables, south rear wall stack. North front, apparently C16 has very small unmoulded 2-light opening, small single light and door in altered surround. West end wall has attic single light with dripstone, first floor 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould and ground floor C20 window. Range at right angles to north front is ashlar-faced with hollow-moulded recessed mullion windows, 3-light and 2-light above, one 3-light below and door in chamfered surround. First floor dripcourse. Ridge stack. Rear wall of this range has one original 2-light window, 2 C19 casements and casement in frame made up of reused pieces. South end gable has hollow-moulded 2-light attic window, similar 3-light first floor window both with hoodmoulds, and altered ground floor window. Remains of a dripcourse at south-east angle. To left, door in heavily chamfered frame with hood on brackets and window to left with remains of hoodmould. Upper single light and 2-light hollow moulded window. C20 casements throughout. Interior has heavy tie beams and collar trusses to south range and heavy purlins in east range. East range has baffle entry plan with chamfered and stopped spine beams to north-east and south-east rooms. North-east room has flush Tudor-arched stone fireplace with moulded stone shelf. South-east first floor room has flush chamfered shouldered stone fireplace with moulded shelf. Marked on F. Allen map of 1630.

Cemetery Chapel, Box Cemetery Chapel, Bath Road
Cemetery chapel, 1857 by Poulton and Woodman of Reading, crazed rubble banded in ashlar with stone tiled roof, sawtooth ridge, coped gables and cross finials. Rectangular plan with projecting north porch and south vestry and north-west needle spire. Unusually elaborate Gothic with highly carved window tracery and virtuoso display of contrasting stonework. Raised plinth, moulded string course ashlar corbelled eaves. Two 2-light ashlar windows each side, with carved angel supporter between pointed heads and overall pointed arch in flush alternating rock-faced and ashlar voussoirs. Below, under string course, ashlar panel of 2 ornate quatrefoils. North porch has pointed arch with hood, 2 pierced trefoil openings each side, pointed-arched inner doorway and scissor-truss roof. South vestry has 2-light south window, similar to those on main chapel and 2 pierced quatrefoil openings on west side. East end with highly ornate traceried 4-light window with hoodmould, head stops and cusped trefoil with hood in gable apex. String course stepped under window with 3 inset ashlar panels below. West end has even more ornate 5-light window with hood, apex trefoil and 3 sunk panels below. Buttress to right and, to left, flying buttress to base of octagonal spirelet with stepped buttressing on 4 cardinal faces reaching up into octagonal bell stage. Diagonal faces have various ornamental details below long bell lancets with cusped heads, heads repeated over buttress tops on cardinal faces and zig-zag hood all around at base of ashlar spire, pierced with small quatrefoils half-way up and capped with iron finial.

Cemetery, Box Cemetery, Entrance Gates and wall to Box Cemetery
Entrance gates and wall to Box Cemetery, 1857 by Poulton and Woodman of Reading. Ashlar, banded in crazed rubble with original iron gates and panels. To left, Gothic-arched pedestrian entry with coped gable and iron gate flanked each side by low wall with single crenellation infilled with iron panel. Main entrance recessed with 2 buttressed outer piers and carved finials, low wall with 2 crenellations each side infilled with iron panels canted back to main cross-plan buttressed gate-piers, buttresses gable-capped with finials surrounding central finial. Iron gates. To right, about 50 m length of low wall with ashlar band under crazed rubble and ashlar coping. Stepped down in 7 lengths.

Cemetery Lodge, The Cemetery Lodge
Entrance Lodge to Box Cemetery, 1857 by Poulton and Woodman of Reading, crazed rubble banded in ashlar with stone tiled roof, sawtooth ridge, coped gables and triple ridge stack. One and a half storeys. Highly ornate Gothic with openings further emphasised with alternating rubble and ashlar voussoirs. Gable-ended to road with pierced star in apex, 2-'light pointed window to first floor and 2-light ground floor window with keyhole- main lights and blank circle above under segmental-pointed voussoir course continued each side over small triangular ashlar panels with pierced star. Two small flanking buttresses. West front has projecting steeply gabled porch to left with iron finial, pointed arched doorway and 2 very small lights low down to side walls. To right, single keyhole light and 2-light window similar to that on north wall ground floor. South end wall has 2-light pointed head window. Similar window to gabled east side projection.

Chapel Barn Farm, Barn at, B3109
Barn, C18, rubble stone with stone tiled main roof and Bridgwater tiled opposed projecting gabled cart entries. Coped gables. Stone tiled lean-to on north end.

Chapel Lane, 1, Chapel Lane
House, early C19, ashlar fronted with slate roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Double fronted with floor band, two 12-pane upper sashes, ground floor 12-pane and 16-pane sashes flanking central 6-panel door. One 12-pane end wall window.

Chapel Plaister, B3109 (formerly listed as Chapel Plaster)
Anglican chapel, traditionally founded c1235 by Sir John du Plessis, Earl of Warwick and rebuilt 1340 by Richard Plaisted of Castle Combe. Ashlar and rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. Nave and chancel with north transept and projecting west porch. Nave west end has simple stone bellcote. Elevations of main chapel show evidence of roof being raised, probably in C15 when the porch was added. Porch has small segmental pointed arched doorway and leaded light over. Nave south side, 2-storey, with upper 2-light recessed mullion window and lower 2-light window with Tudor arched heads. Chancel has remains of heavy eaves moulding and traces of gable coping at original height. Coped east gable. South side upper 2-light C15 window with segmental arched heads to lights, lower door with shouldered head and small pair of lancets to right. Heavy moulded plinth continued around chancel and north transept. Chancel east end has centre buttress. North side has similar C15 upper 2-light window and lower pair of lancets. Two- light window to right apparently made up of fragments. North transept has ridge stack, coped north gable and heavy moulding at original eaves level. Restored 3-light C14 north window with hoodmould. West side of transept no longer has moulded plinth. Small restored 2-light window. Nave north wall has C18 upper 2-light flush cyma-moulded window. Within porch, moulded C14 or C15 Tudor-arched west door with carved spandrels and fine C14 carved niche over. Interior apparently 2-storey from C15, now single storey. Three canopied niches on east wall and corbels for chancel transverse arches, removed when the roof was raised.

Chequers Inn, The Chequers Inn (formerly listed as Chequers Inn and shop adjoining)
Inn, late C17 or early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables east end wall and ridge stacks. One and a half storeys. Four coped dormer gables, 2 larger to left, originally all with 2-light ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows, one with mullion removed and early C19 20-pane small sash. Hoodmoulds over. Ground floor, from left, 3-light ovolo-moulded recessed mullion window with dripstone C19 door in chamfered surround; early C19 large canted bay, ashlar with moulded cornice, raised sill course and plinth, 12-pane sashes to sides with shutters and 16-pane centre sash; C19 door in moulded doorcase and C20 3-light casement, both under broad timber hood extended to right from bay window. East end outbuilding with cellar door. West end wall upper mullion window replaced by 16-pane sash, ground floor 2-light ovolo-moulded window, both with hoodmoulds. Parallel rear range gabled to west and pair of outbuildings to north with south end stack and coped gables. Interior: West end moulded Tudor-arched fireplace with moulded stone shelf. Chamfered and stopped spine beam.

Cheyney Court, Ditteridge 
House, early to mid C17, roughcast rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, 3 paired circular-shafted ridge stacks, 2 on axis, one cross-axial and 2 large north end wall stacks each with 4 circular shafts. Basement and two and a half storeys. Flush quoins. Moulded coped gables with polyhedral finials, 3 gables to east and west, 2 to south. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows. All windows have C20 plastic glazing bars. West front has 2-light attic windows with hoodmoulds to gables and seven-window range below. First floor has 2 outer 2-light mullion-and-transom stair lights each side in stepped arrangement with continuous dripcourse stepped up over outer stair light. In centre 3-2-3 window arrangement with dripcourse stepped over. Ground floor has outer 2-light mullion-and-transom window each side with dripcourse stepped over, central studded plank door in moulded shouldered architrave with carved Speke crest over and open curved pediment on ornate carved brackets. 3-light window each side and 2-light window adjoining stair lights. Right side 2-light window is set lower. Balustraded stone steps up to front door. To left, three 2-light basement windows under dripcourse, 2 original, to right, one 2-light basement window with hoodmould. South front has similar attic and 5-window range with dripcourses stepped over mullion-and-transom lights to outer bays on both main floors. Three 2-light centre windows on first floor, 2 to ground floor flanking central gabled stone-tiled projecting porch with door in moulded shouldered architrave with pulvinated frieze, cornice and shell hood over. Balustraded stone steps up. Basement storey below with hollow-moulded 2-light windows. East front has similar attic windows and asymmetrical window arrangement to main floors. Five-window range of 2-light windows under centre and left gable with dripcourse stepped up at south-east corner. Under right gable second floor off-centre 3-light window at higher level with dripcourse stepped over, first floor large C20 five-light casement with top-lights, hoodmould to right suggests previous window as on floor above. Below, 3-light window with hoodmould, blocked door to left with hood on brackets and 2 small square overlights with hoodmould. Full-height basement storey to left, C20 three-light window, 2 hollow-moulded 2-light windows and door in flush moulded surround. Attached to north end is one and a half storey rubble stone range with coped north gable. East side has 2 dormer gables with 2-light recessed cyma-moulded windows and hoodmoulds over C20 3-light window, door and 2-light window, then straight joint to earlier north end section with flush quoins, one dormer gable with 2-light ovolo-moulded window, chamfered doorcase and C20 2-light window. On west side, similar straight joint and flush quoins. Section to right has dormer gable, first floor moulded single light  and 2 ground floor 2-light windows with hoodmoulds, one original,  one C20. Section to left has dormer gable, first floor moulded single light and dripstone, ground floor 3-light window and hoodmould and door to left at higher level. Interior: mostly early to mid C17 but lower floor on east side probably earlier with moulded elliptical arched north and firelace rind arched recesses. West front hall has fine fireplace with high shelf on moulded consoles and raised centre panel over fireplace. South-west open well stair with closed string, moulded rail and carved arched balustrade. Original gate at foot of stairs. Simpler dog-leg stair at north end of main range with acorn finials to newels and column balusters. Exceptional stone fireplace in first floor south-east room with Ionic fluted pilasters, large consoles to moulded stone shelf and foliate scroll decoration under shelf. Over shelf is frieze with centre arms of George Speke and Margaret Tempest flanked by cherubs and cornucopias with festoons each side, lion masks over and top modillion cornice. House recorded as manor of Cheyney family in C15 but rebuilt for George Speke, died 1656. Owned by the Northey family in C18 and C19. (G.J.Kidston: A History of the Manor of Hazelbury, 1936, 198.)

Cheyney Court, Barn to North East of, Ditteridge
Barn, now film studios, possibly early C17, rubble stone with Bridgwater tiled roof and coped gables. Stepped buttress to east end. Two lean-to south side entries with C20 louvred doors, 2 buttresses between with band of dove-openings over. Original stepped buttress to right of right lean-to, C20 stepped buttress to left of left lean-to. Rear wall has 2 buttresses and five C20 hipped dormers. Blocked main doors. Interior had collar-and-tie beam triple purlin roof apparently of two separate builds. Most tie-beams removed.

Church Cottages Springfield and Church Cottage (formerly listed as Box House Cottages)
Pair of houses, early C18, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end-wall stacks. Two and half storeys, 3-window range, flush bead-moulded mullion windows. Flush quoins, dripcourse over each floor. Flush voussoirs over each main floor opening, above dripcourse. Two dormer gables with 2-light windows and hoodmoulds, first floor range of 3-light, 2-light and 3-light windows, repeated to ground floor with plank door in bead-moulded surround with hood on brackets each side of centre window. To left of Springfield, 2-window range stone-tiled extension with 2 unmoulded upper 2-light windows and pair of 2-light cyma-moulded mullion windows below. C20 door in deep recess. Houses supposedly built in association with Springfield House (q.v.), the parish workhouse, and school, built 1729.

Church of St. Christopher, Ditteridge
Anglican Parish Church, c1100, chancel C13, south porch C14, C15 alterations and 1860 restoration by E.W.Godwin. Rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables, cross finials to east and west ends and rebuilt gabled bellcote at nave east end. Nave and chancel, nave with C20 north vestry addition and south porch. Nave c1100: C15 2-light west window with flat-head and hoodmould, one C15 north window east of vestry, east end buttresses each side and south side pair of Cl9 small cusped pointed lights, south porch, small c1100 arched-head light and 2-light C14 Decorated window with hoodmould. Dripcourse under C19 window. C14 coped-gabled south porch with roof raised in C19 at north end to accommodate door surround. Two-chamfer arch with hoodmould and 2 side buttresses. Stone seats within and 2 original arch-braced collar rafter trusses. Fine c1100 south doorway with carved animal imposts and carved head corbels to arched tympanum with frieze of 10 lyre or acanthus type motifs around. Cl9 frame of unmoulded columns, imposts and arch and Cl9 studded plank door. Chancel has 2 C15 south side flat-head windows with hoodmoulds flanking low C14 priest's door with hoodmould and C19 east window of 2 lancets with column shaft between and plate tracery cinquefoil over. Pointed stepped hoodmould. Interior: C19 arched-braced collar rafter roofs. Nave south wall lined in ashlar. Pointed segmental arched north doorway. North side rood stair. Two low C14 Decorated recesses in south wall. Circa 1100 chancel opening, arch raised in C13 with 2-chamfer pointed arch on half-octagonal corbels. Chancel with Cl9 ashlar lining to north and east walls, C13 south wall piscina with rose motif around drain. Circular Norman font with roll motif decoration. High Victorian banded stone pulpit in 2 colours with incised decoration. Stained glass of c1860 to chancel, east window by Bell of Bristol, faded and 2 south windows. Circa 1860 windows to nave north and south, faded, and west window c1864. Numerous reset C17 and C18 plaques, 2 on north wall of c1700 and c1748 in carved frames. (Pevsner: Wiltshire (1975) 220.)

Church of St Christopher, Barn About 20 Metres North of Church of, Ditteridge
Barn, C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and saddlestones. Opposed entries with projecting gabled west cart entry. Flush quoins. Seven bay triple purlin roof with tie-beam-and-collar trusses

Church of St. Thomas a Becket (formerly listed as Church of St Thomas)
Anglican parish church, C12 origins, C14, C15, 1713, 1834 and restored 1897 by H. Brakspear. Ashlar with stone tile and slate roofs. Nave with C14 north arcade, north aisle rebuilt 1713 with C14 north-east chapel, south aisle 1834, crossing tower C14, possibly earlier, with C15 bell-stage and spire, chancel with C12 origins, C14 and 1713 and projecting 2-storey north-east vestry, possibly a priest's house of late C14 or C15. Nave has C15 3-light Perpendicular west window over C16 door in Tudor arched moulded frame with carved spandrels, hoodmould and 6-panel C18 door. South aisle of 1834 with slate roof, regular row of 4 Perpendicular style flat-headed 3-light windows with hoodmoulds and west door in projecting gabled porch. At east end, rubble stone organ chamber, added 1900. North aisle rebuilt 1713 with large north-west angle buttress and 2-light Perpendicular west window possibly original.
North side moulded eaves cornice and two 3-light Perpendicular style north windows with dripstone over flanking fine 1760 north doorway. Tuscan-columned surround carrying open segmental pediment over bolection-moulded arched head to doorway with keystone carried up to base of pediment and moulded imposts continued behind columns. East end of north aisle, under continuous roof is Hazelbury chapel with restored C14 intersecting tracery 3-light north window and north-east angle buttress similar to aisle north-west buttress. Crossing tower has plain lower stage, possibly C12 in origins with C14 lancet to north and south and buttresses added in C15 with bell-stage. Bell-stage has a 2-light opening each side, pierced parapet, corner pinnacles and recessed octagonal spire above. Chancel south and east walls were rebuilt 1713, retaining C14 3-light east window. 1713 Perpendicular style 3-light south window and blocked door. North wall has much restored C15 3-light window over 1897 porch. North-east vestry is of rubble stone, coped north gable and late C14 or C15 2-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould and carved label stops. Interior: Nave has broad C19 roof, 1834 4-bay south arcade and C14 north arcade, built in two stages with octagonal piers and caps, moulded pointed arches and hoodmoulds. East bay opens into Hazelbury chapel which has C14 moulded rib vault, moulded arch to north aisle, C14 cusped tomb recess on north wall and fine east
wall altar recess with side colonnettes. Tomb recess has resited stone effigy of A. Long of Ashley, died 1578. North window has stained glass of 1899 signed P.H. Newman. North aisle has C18 plastered roof and 3 late c19 or C20 stained glass windows. C15 octagonal font. In nave c1897 stone pulpit. Tower has C14 moulded arches to west and east and blocked north door. Chancel has C18 plaster roof, Gothic altar and reredos (1897 H.Brakspear) with opus sectile tile mosaic panels, attached to a low wall, creating east end vestry space. Blocked north doorway and 1897 north doorway. East window of c1850 in C19 shafted surround. Numerous monuments from C17 to C19, notably, in south aisle c1760 elaborate varicoloured marble wall monument to Margaret Blow and 2 finely lettered late C17 black marble slabs to Sir George and Francis Speke of Hazelbury. In nave, east wall armorial plaque to A. Long died 1578 and in chancel, south wall curved pedimented monument to T. Goddard, died 1691, north wall Baroque plaque to W. Eyre died 1699 and in east end vestry space 3 Northey memorials from 1750 to early C19. (M. & A. Devon: St Thomas A Becket Church, Box, Wiltshire 1984.) -

Church of St. Thomas, Gatepiers at east entry to churchyard of Church of St. Thomas
Gatepiers, mid C18, ashlar with channelled rustication, raised gate-stops with scroll terminals. Concave curved caps with ball finials. C20 wooden gates.

Cobden House, Hazelbury Hill (see Amberley and Cobden House)

Coleridge House, 9 Market Place
House, mid to later C18, painted ashlar with slate roof, coped west gable and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic. One hipped dormer. Three-window range, 12-pane sashes in moulded architrave frames, paired outer windows, single window to first floor centre. Raised angle strips, raised eaves band and moulded first floor band broken forward at angle strips and around central hood on brackets over C20 door in moulded architrave. Said to have been visited by S. T. Coleridge.

Coles Farmhouse
House, dated 1648 and 1685, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and paired diagonal end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys with additional attic, L plan. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows. East front with 2 gables, each with single light over 3-light window, both with hoodmoulds. First floor, two 2-light windows to left under single hoodmould, ground floor 3-light each side of 2-light window, replacing door, continuous hoodmould stepped; over the 2-light window. C20 lean-to to right connecting with C20 projecting gabled single storey kitchen. Left gable dated PW 1646, right gable E/W/S 1685. South gable end is paired with south gable on rear wing. Hipped dormer between gables. Attic blank keyed oval over 2-light window with hood to left gable, first floor 3-light with hood and relieving arch to left, 2-light with hood to centre and 2-light with hood to right side. Ground floor: 4-light with king-mullion has relieving arch left, centre 2-light window, under linked hoodmoulds. Plank door in moulded Tudor-arched surround with imposts, keystone and hoodmould to right side. Left side has moulded plinth stepped over two 2-light basement windows. West gable end, coped gable, blank oval in apex, 2-light attic window with dripstone, 3-light first floor window with hood and relieving arch and 4-light ground floor window with dripcourse stepped over window. North side-wallpaired diagonal stacks, single light and 2-light window with hoodmoulds to first floor, similar windows below with stepped dripcourse. To left 3 stepped stair lights with hoodmould. Rear of main front has gable with 3-light attic window and hood, 2 first floor 2-lights with continuous hood and ground floor door in moulded doorcase with single light to left and 2-light-to right, all with hoods. North end gabled has attached outbuilding with ground floor single light and hood to left of stone steps up to upper door flanked by small 4-light pointed vent loops. Above left vent loop, a late medieval 2-light small window with ogee heads to lights. West side has one ground floor 2-light ovolo-moulded window with hood. To left of gable-end a reset Tudor-arched doorcase with hood. Interior has chamfered and stopped beams, large north end elliptical arched chamfered stone fireplace and south end Tudor-arched moulded fireplace with moulded shelf. Dog-leg stair with flat balusters and acorn finial newel posts. South-west room has C17 plaster frieze of griffins flanking shields and plaster decoration to ceiling. Fine C17 stone fireplace with fluting in frieze and shield spandrels, but not the same fireplace with in frieze fluting and shield spandels, but not same fireplace as illustrated in late C19 engraving by H.Hall, Archit. Assoc. SketchBook, 3rd set, Vol.7; (N.M.R.). Further Tudor-arched stone fireplaces upstairs. House belonged to the Webb family from c1633.

Colton monument, Ditteridge

Dalebrook, Market Place
House, early C19, painted ashlar with Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables and west end wall stack. Three storeys, one-window range. Twelve-pane sashes with mid C19 iron flower balconies to upper floors, ground floor door in flush moulded doorcase, with hood on brackets and C20 bow window with stone tiled roof to right.

Drewett's Mill
Corn mill, mid C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables and east end stack. Two storeys and attic. Four window range of flush cyma-moulded mullion windows with dripstones. From left, ground floor 2-light with 3-light window above, windows set lower than on rest of front; 2-light with 2-light window above; door in flush chamfered surround with upper loading door immediately above, dripstone over; 2-light upper window. Similar attic windows to end walls, 2-light to east, 3-light to west end. Rear has C19 lean-to with, to right, original 2-light lower and upper window and blocked arched opening, for water-wheel replaced by Armfield turbine. Very complete late C19 machinery including turbine, pit-gear, three pairs of stones with stone furniture and dressing tools and most of the ancillary gear. Earlier mortice crown-wheel survives. Five-bay tenoned-purlin roof structure.
[PREVIOUSLY by turbine. Cl9 machinery within. Five-bay double purlin collar-truss roof.]

Drewett's Mill House
House, late C16 and C17, rough rendered rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables with saddlestones and 2 large outside stacks to north front. Two storeys and attic. Flush quoins. North front has 2 upper 2-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds to centre, one with recessed chamfered moulding, one ovolo-moulded. Ground floor has one 2-light ovolo-moulded window to left and centre range of 2 windows, door and window under continuous dripmould, stepped over door. Windows originally 2-light ovolo-moulded, one survives, one replaced by casements and one by 9-pane sash. Cl9 door in moulded stone doorcase set in ashlar slab porch with brackets to flat hood. 2-light attic  hamfered mullion window to east end with oval opening over. Two-light flush cyma-moulded attic window with oval light over and 3-light ovolo-moulded ground floor window, both windows with hoodmoulds, to west end wall. South front has projecting gabled central stair tower with upper 2-light recessed chamfer moulded window and lower 2-light ovolo-moulded window, both with hoodmoulds. Range to right has 2 upper 2-light ovolo-moulded windows with hoodmoulds and 2 lower flush cyma-moulded windows with dripstones, one blocked and obscured by C19 slate roofed addition. To left, upper 3-light recessed chamfer-moulded window with hoodmould and ground floor chamfered arched doorway with C19 door. Single storey projecting stone tiled range with 2-light flush cyma-moulded south end window.

Echo Cottage, Middlehill
House, early C19, ashlar with stone tiled roof, coped gables and east end stack. Two storeys and basement. Three-window range to front, originally 2-window range, extended to left. Three upper 12-pane sashes, ground floor 16-pane sash, 6-panel door with hood on brackets and paired 12-pane sashes with floor band over. Left side has rear wall stack. Parallel rear wing, and further rear range, squared rubble with stone tiles and Bridgwater tiles.

Elliott monument

Eyles monument

Fogleigh House, London Road
House, 1881 by James Hicks of Redruth for C.J. Pictor, quarry  owner. Small ashlar block with ashlar dressings and fishscale banded slate roofs with red tile cresting. Two and a half storeys, ornately carved Gothic with asymmetrical elevations. Main fronts to south with entrance tower rising to hipped pavilion roof with iron cresting, and to west with large curved oriel at end of south front paired with a canted bay, oriel with iron-crested curved pavilion roof, bay with hipped roof. Moulded band, first floor sill-course and eaves. South front entrance tower has Gothic arched porch flanked by buttresses carrying beasts with Pictor shield and monogram. Over pointed arch is carved group representing 'Industry' set in base of a large canted oriel bay, 1-3-1-light mullion and transom window with shield panels below. Above, a long mullion-and-transom window breaking eaves to gable dated 1881. Pavilion roof over with band of lancet panels at eaves. Range to right has large square bay with hipped roof, 4-light mullion-and-transom windows to front with stylised leaf carving to top-light heads. Coped east gable and end stack. To left of tower is side elevation of west oriel bay with wallface stack and single light with transom flanking on each floor. Oriel bay on west front is framed by buttressed walling with corbelling under eaves course. Ground floor paired mullion-and-transom windows with column shafts each side of centre buttress below large curved 5-light oriel with column shafts, transoms, cusped top-lights and leaf-decorated heads. Corbel course at eaves level and moulded cornice under curved pavilion roof. To left, recessed centre with door and window under large Gothic 3-light stair window with cusped heads and ringed shafts. Canted bay to left, mullion and transom lights with square pilaster shafts to lower window and column shafts to upper window, corbelling, moulded cornice and hipped roof. North side wall stack and east end wall stack. Range beyond on north front, 2-storeys, 2-window range with 2-light upper windows and 3-light lower windows, side wall and- east end stacks. Former service range beyond, to east, is now separate property, Crossways House, and is altered and not included in listing. Interior: encaustic tiled floor in porch. Timber moulded staircase with stained glass Pictor arms and initials in stair light. (The Architect. 9.7.1881) -

Ford monument  - see Oriel/Ford

Foxfire Lodge, Rudloe
Lodge to Rudloe Manor, c1855, built for the Hartham Park estate. Ashlar with low-pitched slate eaves roof and north end stack. One and a half storeys, L-plan, Italianate style, similar to Hartham Park lodges, Corsham C.P. Bracketted eaves roof treated as open pediment on south gable and east and west gables of north crosswing. Raised sill-band under attic windows. Glazing bar sashes. Crosswing has east end 9-pane window over ground floor ashlar hipped canted bay, west end similar but timber canted bay. South end similar but with ground floor 12-pane sash. In east side angle is Roman Doric porch with 2 columns, cornice and 2 urns over columns, porch originally open, now infilled.

Frogmore House, Market Place
House, early C18, ashlar with stone tiled roof, coped gables and east end stack. Two and a half storeys, double fronted. Two coped dormer gables with saddle stones and paired 6-pane bead-moulded windows in moulded architraves with cornices. Main front with moulded plinth, moulded string courses over each floor and raised side strips with string courses breaking forward. Two first floor 3-light bead-moulded windows with moulded architraves and casements. Two ground floor paired 12-pane sashes in unmoulded surrounds and central 6-panel door in moulded architrave with fine carved shell hood on carved scroll brackets.

Gable Cottage, Wadswick Lane
House, late C17 or early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables, west end stack and east corner stack. One and a half storeys, double fronted with recessed ovolo-moulded windows and hoodmoulds. Two dormer gables, 3-light windows to both floors on left, 2-light to both floors on right. Central door in flush moulded doorcase with hood on brackets. East end first floor 2-light window with hoodmould. C20 casements. To rear is converted L-plan range of single-storey outbuildings, not of special interest.

Gable Cottage, Barn to West of, Wadswick Lane
Barn, late C18, rubble stone with Bridgwater tiled roof, coped gables and opposed flush cart-entries with timber lintels, rear entry lower. Vent loops in walls and small pointed opening in east gable apex. Boarded west end upper opening. Seven bay roof with tie-beam trusses.

Gael Cottage and Cottage to west, Bath Road
Row of three cottages, now two, C18 altered, rubble stone with stone tiles to 2 sections and pantiles to right end. Coped gables to each section and one ridge stack. Two storeys. West section has 2 upper 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, ground floor blocked single light, blocked door and 4-pane sash. Centre has two 4-pane upper windows in recessed ovolo-moulded surrounds formerly for mullion windows and ground floor window and door. Right section is ashlar with 4-pane ground floor window to south side, west end attic oval light and 3-light flush cyma-moulded mullion window to ground and first floors and north side first floor 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window, wallface stack to right. Centre section has on north side, altered door and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window both under single hoodmould.

Gale monument

Gibbon monument

Gisford monument

Glen, The Glen, Devizes Road
House, early C19, ashlar with slate roof, hipped to west, coped east gable with end wall stack. Two storeys, floor band carried around west end, double fronted to south with two 12-pane sashes to each floor and central 4 panel door with hood on brackets. Twelve -pane sash to each floor on west wall. Prominently sited at junction of Devizes Road and High Street, listed for group value.

Goodyer Monument

Green Lane Farm Cottage, Henley Lane
Cottage, late C17, rubble stone with some Cl9 squared rubble to north gable, stone tiled roof, coped gables and south end stack. One and a half storeys. North end gable has first floor 2-light ovolo-moulded recessed mullion window and ground floor in unmoulded surround with C20 window to right. West front has dormer gable over 2-light window with hoodmould and 3-light ground floor window with hoodmould, both with ovolo-moulded mullions. C20 flat-roofed porch to left. Attached to east side is 2-storey ashlar late C19 or C20 house, not of special interest.

Greensleeves, Market Place
House, late C17 or early C18, rendered ashlar with Bridgwater tile roof, coped east gable and end wall stacks, truncated east stack. Two and a half storeys, double fronted. Two tall dormer gables, coped, with saddlestones and 2-light ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows and hoodmoulds, 2 similar first floor 3-light windows with hoodmoulds, ground floor dripcourse over 2 similar 3-light windows, dripcourse broken for hood on brackets over central Cl9 6-panel door in moulded flush surround. Moulded plinth. Small pane windows and some sash opening lights.

Grove Farm, Box Hill - see London Terrace, Nos. 1 and 2 London Terrace

Hatt Farmhouse
Farmhouse, c1845, small ashlar block with slate roof and 2 stacks on rear roof slope. Two storeys, 3-window range. Symmetrical front with slightly recessed centre and Tudor style windows with small paned sashes, 2-light outer windows and single light to first floor centre. Hoodmoulds over. Central Tudor arched doorway with plank door set in large ashlar gabled porch, coped gable, Tudor-arched doorway and small blank panel with hoodmould in gable apex. Plain rear elevation and small 2-storey building attached at rear corner with coped gables and end wall stacks.

Hatt House
House, c1820, ashlar fronted with hipped slate roof and 2 ashlar stacks to rear. Three storeys, 3-window range with raised first floor sill band, moulded cornice and parapet. Three attic 6-pane square windows, first floor centre 9-pane sash flanked by tripartite 3-9-3 pane sashes. Ground floor centre 12-pane sash, right side tripartite 4-12-4 pane sashes and left side 4-panel door with side-lights in Roman Doric projecting porch, paired front columns and single column responds. Single storey addition at left side with cornice, parapet and 2 large 16-pane sashes. Taller Cl9 addition behind.

Hazelbury Manor (formerly listed as Hazelbury Manor and Barn)
Manor House, C15 to C17, restored and enlarged 1920-25, rubble stone and ashlar, part roughcast, with coped gables and ashlar stacks. Two and a half storeys, courtyard plan. Great hall of Croke family, owners from C13 to C15, probably incorporated in present hall, c1500 for J. Bonham, wing to east probably early C16 as also wing to west but this probably raised after 1580. The west side of the court, almost all of 1920-25 was probably of c1550 completed after 1580 for Sir J. Yonge, together with south-west stair tower. North side of court wholly of 1920-25 is on C16 foundations. The restoration and enlargement were by Sir H. Brakspear for G.J. Kidston. South front has C15 Great Hall marked by a large battlemented canted bay and a 2-storey battlemented porch tower, both of 1920-25, reconstructed from evidence of foundations and carved fragments. To right, ashlar gable, early C16, with 2 large 15-pane thick glazing bar sashes to each floor, buttress between lower sashes and hoodmould over upper pair. Thick glazing bars here and elsewhere are of 1920-25 replacing later C18 or Cl9 sashes. East end wall stack with paired diagonal shafts. Range running back has some c1500 Tudor-arched lights to courtyard. Before 1919, range ended at very large ridge stack. East side has wall-face stack, 3 upper windows, cyma-moulded, 2 lower c1920 Tudor-arched lights, original 2-light window and plank door with pair of Tudor-arched window heads over lintel. West end of south front has tall paired-gabled range with large central outside stack, 2 late C16 recessed chamfered 3-light attic windows, two 18-pane thick glazing bar sashes, and 2 ground floor leaded lights in moulded frames. Coped east gable and east end stack. West garden front has 5 gable range,2 original, with paired corniced stack on rear roof slope, 3, with large ridge stack, added 1920-25. Original gables have 3-light attic windows as on south front, each over a pair of large 18-pane sashes restored 1920 and left side sash added, and ground floor 2 single lights to right and two 2-light windows to left. Circa 1920 stepped buttress at end of old work. Circa 1920 range has recessed chamfered mullion windows throughout and is roughcast to match original section. North front of 4 gables, one and a half storeys, wholly 1920-25, also with recessed chamfered mullion windows. In north-east corner late C20 swimming pool addition. Inner court has south side reconstructed half stack, original c1500 Tudor-arched 4-light hall bay and c1580 flat-parapet stair tower with double-transom 2-light windows. To left of stack restored later C16 upper 3-light mullion and transom window with c1500 Tudor-arched light to right. Ground floor passage is c1920-25. On west side, original only left end bay of 6-bay open segmental-pointed arcade and and one of the 3-light mullion and transom windows, but the rest includes carved fragments found and follows foundations. East side is original as far as ridge stack. East of main house, short original range with upper 2-light window and hoodmould over open porch with long hood on carved C18 brackets. A service range of c1920 links this section to formerly detached 'Dower House', C17 house built for the Speke family. Symmetrical double-fronted range with end wall stacks, parapet and 2 coped gables to each side. Recessed chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds, 2-light to attic, 3-light to main floors. Central moulded Tudor-arched doorcase with hoodmould. Relieving arches over ground and first floor openings. Rear is similar, but 2 central stair lights over door and ground floor casements. Parapet front and rear has 3 projecting stone rainwater spouts.  Interior: Original 6-bay double-purlin windbraced hall roof with arch-braced collar trusses. Original Perpendicular style panelling to arches to north and south hall bays. Timber screen and gallery reused from house in Barnstaple. C17 staircase reused from house in Shrewsbury, as also C17 panelling to upstairs room on west side. East side dining room has fine early C17 stone fireplace, said to 'have been moved from the 'dower house' but possibly in situ, and panelling reused from house in Shropshire. Upstairs, south-west drawing-room has c1920 panelling and plaster, but reused shell niche from former north-east kitchen. Fireplaces from the 'dower house' and attics of main house reused in north wing. Hazelbury Manor was visited by Queen Elizabeth I, 23 August 1575 and four Somerset gentlemen were knighted there. The manor of Hazelbury passed from the Croke family to the Bonham family c1500, was sold in 1580 to Sir J. Yonge of Bristol and c1602 to Hugh Speke of Ditteridge and c1725 to W. Northey. (Country Life 20 and 27 February 1926. G.J.Kidstone: A History of the Manor of Hazelbury 1936.)

Hazelbury Manor, Enclosing walls to north and west of Hazelbury Manor and terrace in west garden
Walls and terrace, C17 restored, rubble stone and ashlar. High rubble stone north wall with ashlar ridged coping and battlemented curved towers at north-west and north-east angles. North-west tower has inner steps up to stone seat on curved balcony on carved brackets, acting as canopy to curved seat below. Corbelled stone seat on north wall outer face. Centre of north wall has moulded Tudor-arched gateway with strapwork cresting and carved Speke arms. On east side wall returns to rear of the Dower House. On west side wall steps down at terrace and has 2 external buttresses at south end. Terrace attached in west garden, rubble stone base with 8 stone steps up in centre and length of ashlar balustrading each side, turned balusters, panelled piers, moulded rail and some stone urns. Eight sections to left, 7 to right with small return at east end. Terrace is of c1925-26 by Sir H. Brakspear when the rest of the walls were restored.

Hazelbury Manor, Entrance Gates and Coach house at Hazelbury Manor
Entrance gate piers, later C17, banded ashlar with moulded cornices pulvinated friezes and ball finials. Attached to west, short length of rubble stone coped wall links to the coach house, a rubble stone outbuilding with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. West end has timber-lintel cart entry, apparently a later alteration as above are paired arched dripmoulds probably originally for 2 arched entries. Three bay tie-beam-and-angle-strut trussed roof with triple purlins and remains of thatch.

Hazelbury Manor, Forecourt walls, terrace and gates to south of Hazelbury Manor
Enclosing walls, gates and terrace, later C17, and 1920-25 by Sir H. Brakspear rubble stone and ashlar. Two fine south gate piers, banded ashlar with moulded cornices and pulvinated friezes carrying ornate urns with attached shields to front and rear. Carved arms of Sir H. Speke (died 1661) with emblem of baronetcy awarded 1660. Inner face of piers breaks forward with C20 wooden gates. Rear of each pier has recessed shell-headed niche low down. Enclosing garden are rubble stone walls with ridged ashlar coping, side walls stepped up twice towards north ends. At each end of terrace along south front of house are gateways, to west pair of C18 panelled ashlar piers with cornices, ball finials and C20 iron gates, to east Tudor-arched chamfered doorway with plank door. South terrace has ashlar balustrade in 6 sections each side with moulded rail, square piers with strap work panelling, turned balusters, apparently all of c1920-25 but based on C17 fragments.

Hazelbury Manor, Stables at Hazelbury Manor
Stable range, later C17, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped east gable and one central loft dormer on north front. Ground floor range of window, door, window, door and 2 windows, doors in flush chamfered surrounds and windows of 2 small square lights in recessed cyma-moulded mullioned frames. Mounting block between doors. West end outside stairs to loft. Rear has four C20 windows similar to those on front. Six-bay double purlin roof with collar-trusses and later sling braces.

Hazelbury, The Granary, south-east of Hazelbury
Granary and cart-shed range, later C17, converted c1922-5 into garage, cottages and workshop by Sir H. Brakspear. Rubble stone, part roughcast with stone tiled roofs, coped gables and c1922 corniced ashlar stacks and hipped dormers. One and a half storeys. Open courtyard plan. Small scale court entered through low wall between wings. Chamfered basket-arched doorway with drips tone and oak plank door to left of main range with recessed chamfered single light above, 2-light recessed mullion window with hood to ground floor right. Doorcase has John Pritchard 1766 inscribed. North wing has plank door on inner face, south wing has outside stairs to loft door under dormer gable to right, 2-light renewed ground floor centre window with hood and single light to left. Gable ends of both wings have renewed 2-light windows with hoodmoulds to upper floors. Ground floors formerly had open 2-bay cart-sheds. Original 2-light windows with hoodmoulds to outer side of each wing. North gable end of main range has original attic light and inserted garage. Three rear dormer gables are of c1922, one reusing original window.

Head monument

Henley Farmhouse, Henley Lane
Farmhouse, late medieval and C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof coped gables, ridge stack and end wall stacks. One and a half storeys, 3-window range of ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Three dormer gables with 2-light windows, 3 ground floor 3-light windows and C20 door in unmoulded surround to right of centre. West end has similar 2-light window to each floor. Two gabled rear wings, east side wing with similar single light on east side wall and west side wing with similar ground floor single light without hood. Rear centre has late medieval pointed arched doorway and small first floor pointed light and rear wall to right of west wing has blocked small upper single light and blocked lower single light with hood, both ovolo-moulded. Recorded as Henlle in a C13 marriage settlement. Interior said to have cruck trusses.


Henley Farmhouse, Barn to North East of, Henley Lane
Barn range, C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped east gable and hipped west end. Projecting gabled opposed cart entries south gable with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window and hoodmould, mullion missing. Five-bay interior with collar and tie-beam trusses. Attached at east end, barn with hipped east gable, projecting gabled opposed cart entries adjacent to end wall of main barn. In angle to right of south gable, hipped-roof range with Tudor-arched upper door, ground floor small paired pointed 2-light window, apparently medieval, and chamfered doorcase. East end tiled lean-to. Rear has, to left of cart entry, similar upper door and single lancet below

Henley Farmhouse, Stable to north-east of Henley Farmhouse
Stable, rubble stone with stone tiled roof and coped gables. Central dormer gable with loading door. Ground floor central door in flush chamfered surround with keystone flanked by 2-light flush chamfered mullion 2-light window each side. Bridgwater-tiled north lean-to. Tiled range attached at south end is not of special interest.

Henly monument, Ditteridge

Hermitage ,The Hermitage , Bath Road
House, mid C18, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic, 2 hipped dormers. Formal 3-window front with parapet, moulded cornice and moulded first floor course, both breaking forward over raised angle strips. Windows in bead-moulded architraves, paired 12-pane sashes to outer windows, 12-pane centre sash to first floor and canted projecting ashlar porch with string course carried around as cornice, 6-panel door in moulded surround and 8-pane windows to sides. Thick glazing bar sashes. Urn each end of parapet. Front continues in similar style to right, with slate roof, similar moulded cornice and string course, right end angle strip and corner urn. Pair of 12-pane sashes above, 2 pairs below. Rough rendered west end wall and late C19 parallel north-west rear range, 3-storeys, one-window range of paired sashes, extended to left in Cl9. Further left is fine later C18 ashlar-fronted structure with triple hipped roof, parapet and cornice and 2 large moulded Venetian windows, 8-12-8 pane sashes, centre sash with intersecting glazing bars to arched head. The interior is divided into 2 tall rooms with cellars off to rear, central fireplace flanked by arched openings.  Basement of main house has cyma-moulded doorway and similar 2-light window with mullion removed now within later rear extension. Also within at rear ground level an ashlar Roman Doric column, possible indicating a rear open loggia.


Hermitage, The Hermitage, Gate piers and wall to The Hermitage, Bath Road
Wall and gatepiers, mid C18. Rubble stone coped wall with ashlar gatepiers, channelled upper courses, moulded cornice and spiral fluted urn finials. C19 or C20 iron gates.

Hilden, Beech Road
House, apparently C19 incorporating C17 features, squared rubble stone with slate roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys. Front has one window range of 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window, ground floor window with hoodmould. Door in chamfered doorcase to right. Rear is rubble stone to dripcourse and squared rubble stone above. Upper single light and ground floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded window and blocked 2-light window with hoodmould.

Hill House Farmhouse, Middle Hill
Farmhouse, C16 to C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped gables, ridge stack and south end paired diagonal stack. Ridge stack to south-west wing. L-plan, one and a half storeys. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows generally, but arched-headed recessed chamfered lights of early C16 type to ground floor centre. East front has 2 dormer gables, one to left with 4-light window breaking eaves, central king mullion and hoodmould over, one to right with 3-light window above eaves and hoodmould. First floor single light, at eaves. Ground floor from left, blocked single light with hood, 4-light window with king mullion and hoodmould, 2-light window and hoodmould, then two 2-light windows with arched-headed lights, and to right inserted 2-light C20 ovolo-moulded window with hood. At right end, 2 storey extension, Bridgwater tiled with coped north gable, ground floor C20 door and C20 3-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould. West front has dormer gable each side with 3-light window and hoodmould and single light upper window to right. Ground floor has one single-light and one 2-light recessed chamfered window, single light with arched head. To right a segmental-pointed chamfered doorway with plank door. North end extension has door. Projecting from right end is south-west wing with ground floor 3-light window and upper 3-light eaves-breaking hipped dormer to north front. One 2-light window with hood to west end. South side has dormer gable with 3-light window and hoodmould over stone-tiled lean-to, originally of 4 open bays with timber posts, now infilled and inner 6-panel door in chamfered surround, casement pair to left. Later Bridgwater tiled outhouses added to south. Interior: originally open-hall house (smoke-blackened timbers) with fine 6-panel inserted ceiling, heavily moulded beams and large infilled stone fireplace. Segmental pointed arched doorway to cross passage with early C17 plank door. South end room has heavy chamfered-and-stopped spine beam and wall beams and large elliptical arched stone south end fireplace. First floor centre room has stone fireplace with carved stone arms over of Snell quartering Keynell, marriage recorded in 1510 but possibly inserted in early C17 when house owned by John Snell.

Hill House Farmhouse, Barn to West of Mill Lane (Middlehill)
Barn, C18, squared rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables. Opposed slightly projecting hipped cart-entries with ashlar piers, north side entry blocked. East end dove-openings. West end rubble stone extension with stone tiled roof. Barn roof of 5 narrow bays, tie-beam-and-collar trusses with angle posts.

Hooper monument, Ditteridge

Iddols monument

Inghalls Cottages, Barn to West of, 1 Mill Lane
Barn, C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and saddlestones. Large projecting south side gabled cart-entry and plain north side entry opposite. Six bay roof with tie-beam-and-collar trusses. Bridgwater-tiled lean-to to left of south cart-entry. A barn of Slade's Farm (q.v.).

Kingsdown House No 1 Gatepiers, gates and railings to No 1 Kingsdown House, No 1
Gatepiers, gates and railings, early C19. Central large ashlar panelled piers with curved cross-gabled caps and urns. Iron gates with anthemo in heads to rails. To each side, a high ashlar plinth carrying similar cast iron railings stopped at each end by panelled ashlar piers with cross-gabled caps.

Kingsdown House, Nos 1 and 2 Kingsdown House (formerly listed as Kingsdown House
House, former lunatic asylum, early C18 and C19, ashlar with slate roofs. No 1 is early C18 with coped gables and end wall stacks. Three-storey, 3-window formal front. with channelled angle pilasters, moulded string courses and cornice breaking forward at pilasters, parapet and corner urns. Segmental headed 12-pane sashes in raised bead-moulded surrounds with keystones, those to ground and first floor with cornices over keystones where string course breaks forward. Central raised moulded segmental headed doorcase set in early C19 ashlar Corinthian columned porch. Over centre parapet, segmental pedimented clock gable with channelled pilasters and ball finial, probably C19. To each side, 2-storey, one window range wings with early C19 unmoulded 12-pane sashes above, door below to right and window below to left in early C18 raised moulded surround. Centre rear projection with hipped roof, hipped dormer and 2-storey, 2-window range, upper bead-moulded flush surrounds to windows. No 2, to right of No 1, is C19 ashlar 2-storey, 3-window range with moulded string course, moulded cornice and parapet. Plate glass sashes. Kingsdown House was a private asylum certainly from the C18, but in evidence to a parliamentary select committee of 1815-16 it was stated to have been in existence for 200 years. (W.Parry Jones. The Trade in Lunacy 1972) -

Kingsdown House, No 3 Kingsdown House
House, early C19, ashlar fronted with slate roof, coped west gable and hipped east gable. North wallface stack and south-east corner stack. Tall 3 storeys with 2-window range of sash windows in flush chamfered Tudor arched surrounds. North front has 15-pane upper sashes, 12-pane first floor sashes and ground floor blank opening, 4-panel door in similar surround with stone-tiled trellis porch and 12-pane sash to right. East end 2-window range, but with intersecting glazing bar heads to ground and first floor windows. South front has similar surrounds to first and second floor openings, but second floor right has door. Twelve-pane sashes elsewhere. Built as part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House, possibly as a doctor's residence.

Kingsdown House, No 7 Kingsdown House
House, early C19 incorporating earlier building, painted ashlar front with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys to front, 3 to rear. Four-window front range with moulded cornice and parapet. Three upper 12-pane sashes and one escape door, 2 ground floor 12-pane sashes, centre door and to open segmental arches to left. Rubble stonework with 3-light mullion window within arcade. Rubbled stone building to left with coped gable and end wall stack. One bead-moulded mullion window to rear of C18 type. Main range rear has small fragment of dripmoulding at ground floor right end: Rebuilt as part of the extensions to the private asylum at Kingsdown House recorded from the C18 but stated in 1815 as having been in existence for 200 years. (W.Parry Jones: The Trade in Lunacy 1972.)

Lamb Cottage, Devizes Road - see Pye Corner, No 4 Pye Corner and Lamb Cottage, Devizes Road

Lamb House, Devizes Road
Inn, now house, late C18 or early C19, painted ashlar with slate roof, coped south-east gable and end wall stack. Two storeys and attic. Paired small 12-pane attic windows, paired 12-pane first floor sashes and ground floor 12-pane and 16-pane sashes. End wall has upper 16-pane sash and C19 6-panel door. Cl9 3-storey rear wing, facing road, small ashlar block with slate roof, coped gables and south end wall stack. Two window range, blank to upper floors on right, over former door, paired 4-pane upper sashes and paired 12-pane sashes to first and ground floors on left. Formerly the Lamb Inn.

Laurel Cottage and Toad Hall and front railings, Middlehill
House, now 2 houses, C18, ashlar with stone tiled mansard roof, coped gables, end-wall and ridge stacks. Two storeys and attic. South front has C20 dormer to left and flat dormer to right with paired 8-pane windows. Three-window range to main floors with raised sill band. Three upper 12-pane sashes, ground floor 12-pane sash, half-glazed door and 2 Cl9 sashes. worth entrance front has first floor thick glazing bar 12-pane sash to left and small 8-pane sash to right. Ground floor C19 plate glass sash each side of half-glazed door with hood on brackets. Each house has late C18 extension, that to left with mansard roof, coped gable and hipped lean-to beyond, that to right, at right-angles to main front, similar, with mansard roof, coped gable and hipped-roof lean-to. Door with hood on brackets and paired 12-pane sash. Attached are spearhead iron front railings with 2 gateways, ashlar piers and C19 iron gates.

Le Vicount monument, Ditteridge

Lee monument

Ley Cottage, The Ley
House, later C18, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic, 3-window range. One dormer, first floor 12-pane, 6-pane and 16-pane sashes and ground floor 16-pane sashes each side of door in projecting Roman Doric 2-column porch. Slate roofed lean-to to left with 6-pane C19 sash. North side has 2 dormers, one 16-pane sash and two 12-pane sashes to first floor, ground floor outbuilding and two 12-pane sashes.

Little Monument

London Terrace, Nos. 1 and 2 London Terrace (Grove Farm, Box Hill)
Pair of houses, early C18, extended, ashlar fronted and rubble stone with stone tiled roof. Coped gables and end wall stacks to main range and rear wall stack to No 1. Two storeys. No 2, to right, is original range with first floor 2-light flush chamfered mullion window to left and paired 3 and 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to right. Ground floor 2-light flush chamfered window, door in stone slab porch with flat hood and to right, door with blank arch over and stone slab porch with flat hood and moulded heads to piers. To right, paired 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows and dripstone over. Right hand addition, with coped gable and end wall stack has rosette datestone MW 1789 on end wall and front 2-window range. Upper C20 window over door in stone slab porch with rounded piers and flat hood. To right C20 window replacing 2-light flush cyma moulded window and 2-light flush cyma moulded window above. At left end of main front, No 1, C19 rubble stone with door and window to left. To right of door on original corner stone is inscribed 'London Place'. Behind rear wall stack, rear wing, originally with 2-light window and hoodmould to each floor. Ovolo-moulded frame survives to upper window, hoodmould only to lower window. This section indicates that front of No 1 is rebuild of early C18 house.

Longridge House (formerly listed as House adjoining Spa House), Middlehill
House, late C18 and C19, ashlar with C19 slate roof, coped gables and end stacks. An addition to the west side of Spa House (q.v.). Three storeys, the upper floor apparently a later alteration with 2 plate glass sashes, moulded cornice over 3 first floor plate glass sashes and moulded course over ground floor 6-panel door in architrave with cornice, course continued to right over window heads of Venetian 8-12-8 paned tripartite window with traceried arched head to centre. Parallel 3-storey rear range. West end wall has one arched glazing bar sash with traceried head.

Lower Rudloe Farmhouse and attached stable wing
Farmhouse, mid C18 (reset datestone 1749), painted rubble stone with concrete tiled roof, half-hipped at gables and centre ridge stack. Two storeys and attic. Two hipped dormers. Three-window range, outer recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows, 3-light above and 4-light with hoodmoulds below. Projecting gabled centre addition with bargeboards and long casement windows, pair to first floor and single each side of 6-panel door with datestone over. Rear has pair of 12-pane sashes to ground floor right and lean-to to left with 3-light mullion window. Range of stables running east from north end with stone tiled roof, hipped at north west angle.

Manor House, The Manor House (formerly listed as Manor Farmhouse)
House, early C17, ashlar with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end-wall stacks of 3 diagonal shafts. Three storeys. Parapet with 3 moulded coped gables over 3 ovolo-moulded 3-light recessed mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Ground and first floors with moulded plinth and dripcourses probably originally carried around a 2-storey bay each side, now replaced by flush walling with C18 type 3-light bead-moulded flush mullion windows to each floor and dripcourses not replaced. Centre has original fenestration of two 2-light windows to first floor and 2 similar to ground floor flanking central door with dripcourse stepped over. Windows all ovolo-moulded. Raised moulded surround to plank door. East end wall has one 2-light window to each floor and west end wall has one blocked 2-light window. Dripcourses continued around. North front is 3-gabled with large projecting central stair tower. Dripcourses carried around. Stair tower has 2-light window with hoodmould to north and west faces at attic level, 2-light window with hoodmould at first floor north and east, and ground floor Tudor-arched moulded doorway with 3-light window adjacent, both under single hoodmould. To each side is 3-light attic window with hoodmould, 3-light first floor window and ground floor obscured by additions. Interior has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with stone shelf over to each end of ground floor, moulded stone inner north doorcase, fine oak spiral stair, and moulded oak doorcases and plank doors to first floor and attic. First floor stone fireplaces of early C18 type. Marked on F. Allen map of 1630.

Manor House, The Manor House, Barn to North West of, High Street
Barn, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and projecting gabled east side cart entry. Flush quoins. Stepped buttress each side of cart entry. Five-bay double-purlin roof with collar trusses, collars missing. Blocked west side opening.

Market Place, 3-7, Market Place
Row of five cottages, early Cl9, ashlar with slate roofs. Two storeys. Nos 3 and 4 have large ashlar stack on front roof slope, 2-window range of 12-pane sashes and door with hood on brackets to each side. C20 door and hood to No 3. Nos 5, 6 and 7 have coped gables, 2 ridge stacks and west end wall stack. First floor band. Originally each house was one-window range of 12-pane sashes with 6-panel door to left under hood on brackets. No 5 has additional 12-pane sash over door, C20 glazed porch, and through passage to left. Included for group value.

Mead View and Mead House, High Street
Pair of houses, later C18, squared rubble stone with Bridgwater tile mansard roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic. Four flat dormers. Four-window range with flush cyma-moulded mullion windows, four 2-light windows above, two 3-light windows with hoodmoulds below, each with door in chamfered doorcase and hood on brackets to left. Additional inserted window to left of door to Mead View. Two storey projecting extension to right of Mead House.

Mead House and Strauchen Mead Cottage, The Ley
House, now two, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables, east end wall stack, ridge stack and west end stack on south slope of gable. Two storeys. South front, 3-window range, first floor 3-light recessed chamfered mullion window, C20 2-light mullion window and similar Cl9 2-light window. Ground floor C18 3-light recessed hollow moulded window, small single light and 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded window. West end wall has one 2-light C17 recessed hollow-moulded window with hoodmould. North side, 4-window range with large buttress. First floor casement pair, single casement, and C20 3-light and 2-light recessed hollow-moulded windows. Ground floor has renewed 3-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould and relieving arch, C20 single light, C20 3-light and C20 door. At east end a 2-storey C20 extension.

Middlehill House
House, c1830-40 recasing of mid C18 building, ashlar fronted with hipped broad-eaved slate roof. Plain tiles to earlier roofs visible to rear. Two storey and attic, square plan. Front range has paired octagonal stacks to right end of ridge, 3 later flat dormers and 3-window front range, upper floor painted. First floor band. Windows are sashes, with thick centre bar giving effect of paired sashes with margin lights. Ground floor windows are in chamfered surrounds. Broad central elliptical arched doorway with traceried fanlight over half-glazed double-doors and narrow lights each side. Large lean-to 8-bay iron verandah with glazed roof continued in 5 bays along west front. West front has 2-window range of similar windows, first floor right is false and ground floor right is French window with overlight. Cluster of 3 octagonal stacks on ridge. East front is raised to match, with eaves roof, but irregular fenestration. From rear it is apparent that part of front range is refacing of mansard-roofed house with central rear stair tower and paired mansard-roofed rear wings, one side refaced and heightened as east front, the other side concealed behind west range.

Milestone about 140m north of junction with lane to Box Hill, Bradford Road
Milestone, late C18 or early C19 with attached painted cast-iron plate inscribed '100 miles from Hyde Park Corner 7 miles from Bath'.

Milestone about 200m west of junction with lane to Middlehill, Bath Road
Milestone, early C19, with cast-iron plate inscribed 'To Bath 5'.

Milestone about 40m south-east of junction with Wadswick Lane, Devizes Road. A365
Milestone, Cl9, stone with cast-iron plaque reading 'Bath 8 Melksham 4' in raised capitals.

Milestone at intersection of Devizes Road A365 and Kingsdown Road
Milestone, C18 or early C19 with attached cast-iron plaque inscribed 'The Bath Roads' with pointing hand and 'To the Guildhall Bath 7' below.

Milestone on south side about 300m east of Clift House, London Road Box Hill
Milestone, early C19, with cast-iron plate inscribed 'To Bath 7'.

Milestone on south side outside Kingsdown Farm, Kingsdown Road
Milestone, early C19, with attached cast-iron plaque reading The Bath Roads' with pointing hand, and 'To the Guildhall, Bath, 4 m & 7 fur'.

Milestone on south side set in garden wall of Lyndale, Devizes Road
Milestone, late C18 or early C19, with cast-iron plaque inscribed '6 miles to Bath'.

Milestone on south side, about l00m south-east of Hatt Lane, Devizes Road
Milestone, C18 or early C19, pyramid capped stone with attached cast-iron plaque inscribed '7 miles to Bath'.

Milestone opposite front entrance of Ashley Farm House
Milestone, early Cl9, with curved top and attached cast iron plaque inscribed 'To Bath 5'.

Mill Cottage, Drewetts Mill (formerly listed as Cottage at Drewett's Mill)
House, mid C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables, north end stack and west end stack to rear wing. Two storeys and attic. L-plan. Flush quoins. Double fronted with two 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to each floor, all with dripstones. Central door in chamfered doorcase with hood on brackets. South end wall has similar window to attic and ground floor. Rear wing has similar 3-light window to each floor on north side and 2-light upper window to south side. Single storey west end extension with coped gable and stone tiles. Tudor arched fireplace at west end, ground floor.

Mills Platt (formerly listed as Mills Platt Cottages)
House, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and ridge stack to rear wing. One and a half storeys. L-plan. Earliest section is east end of rear wing, mid C17, with south front 3-window range of 2-light recessed chamfered mullion windows, upper dormer gables. Dripstones to all windows except those in right end bay. Plank door in chamfered surround to left of end bay. Casement windows, some leaded fixed lights. To left, straight joint to one window range, upper dormer gable with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould, ground floor 5-light mullion window, extended from original 2-light with stone lintel over, bolection-moulded with carved roundel frieze, apparently a reused door or fireplace lintel. Straight joint to gable end of west cross wing. Attic blank ovolo-moulded single light with hood, 2 first floor recessed cyma-moulded 2-light windows under single hood, similar ground floor 2-light window with hoodmould and door in flush cyma-moulded surround with shallow porch, slab sides and scrolled brackets to pediment hood. West front has 2 dormer gables, that to left with 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window and hood, that to right with gable stack and single light recessed cyma-moulded window and hood. Ground floor 3-light and 2-light recessed cyma-moulded mullion windows, dripstone over 3-light and hood over 2-light. North end wall has recessed chamfered 2-light ground floor window. Hipped stair tower in rear north angle, 2-light upper window, single light below. To right, one window range with dormer gable and incised W/S/E 1694, 2-light recessed cyma-moulded window hood over C20 lean-to with reset 2-light north window and reset east oak plank door. To left a former doorway with hood and inserted C20 window. Straight joint to earlier range to left. One dormer gable and larger gable to left, both with 2-light recessed hollow moulded windows. Ground floor C20 window in chamfered former doorcase, 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window with hood and C20 lean-to. Marked on F.Allen map of 1630.

Mills Platt Farmhouse
House, later C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and east end stack. Two storeys and attic. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows. South front has 2 first floor 2-light windows and ground floor 2-light and 3-light windows under single hoodmould. C20 external stack to left. West end wall has attic single light and ground floor 2-light window, both with hoods. East end wall similar but with ground floor 2-light window and 12-pane window set in moulded arched doorway. C20 Bridgwater tiled stone and roughcast north wing. Interior ground floor narrow west end room and main room to east both with chamfered and stopped spine beams. Fine east end moulded stone Tudor-arched fireplace with moulded stone shelf.

Mills Platt Farmhouse, Barn to North of, A4
Barn, C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and projecting west side hipped cart entry. Three bays. Tudor-arched south end loft opening.

Mitchell monument

Mullins monument

Mullins monument

Netherby, Hazelbury Hill
Pair of houses, now one, earlier C19, small ashlar block walls with slate roof, coped gables, end wall stacks and ridge stack. Two storeys. First floor sill band. Three first floor 12-pane sashes. Ground floor 12-pane sash, door with hood on brackets, pair of 12-pane sashes, former door with hood on brackets, replaced 16 pane window and then pair of 12-pane sashes. Included for group value

Netherby Cottage, Hazelbury Hill
Two houses, now one, early to mid C18. Right side is squared rubble with unusual bands of triangular stones, stone tile roof, coped gables and north end stack. Two storeys and attic. First floor central 3-ight recessed cyma-moulded mullion window with flush cyma-moulded single light to right. Ground floor central plank door in chamfered surround with recessed cyma-moulded 3-light window to left and similar 2-light to right, all under continuous hoodmould. End wall has 2-light attic and first floor recessed cyma-moulded windows, hoodmould to first floor window. Left side is ashlar fronted with rubble stone north wall, L-plan with coped east gable and roof hipped at angle. Large ridge stack on rear wing. Front has floor band and 2 flush cyma-moulded 3-light first floor windows and altered ground floor with door, 3-light window under timber lintel and long timber lintel over C20 bullseye window and 2-light window. North side has 3-light flush cyma-moulded upper window, ground floor door with inserted window and long 12-pane window under timber lintel. East gable end has attic 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded window with dripstone. Front room has large Tudor-arched stone rear-wall fireplace.

Old Dairy, The Old Dairy, gate piers, wall and railings
House, C16 altered, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and 2 ridge stacks. Two storeys and attic. South front has one dormer and dormer gable to right with 12-pane sash breaking eaves and door below. Three first floor 12-pane sashes to left over plank door, 16-pane sash, fielded 4-panel door in chamfered surround and 3-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion window with hoodmould. Picturesque C19 gabled log porch with similar 2-bay open verandah to left. East end wall has rendered jettied timber-framed upper gable over C19 door and shop-window. North front has similar dormer gable at left end and 12-pane sash breaking eaves, slate-roofed lean-to below. Twelve-pane sash and 6-pane window in surround for mullion window to first floor and two 16-pane ground floor windows. Wallface stack to right. Attached to south-east corner is C19 wall and railings, 4 corniced piers with pyramid caps, spearhead iron railings and similar pedestrian gate.

Old Jockey Cottages, Nos 3 to 5 (consec) Old Jockey Cottages
(formerly listed as Cottage to west of the Old Jockey Inn)
Three cottages, late C17, painted rubble stone with slate roofs. One and a half storeys. L-plan.

No 3, to front, has coped gables and south end truncated stack. Two-window range of 2-light ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows and hoodmoulds, upper windows in dormer gables. North end wall door and south end single storey addition with ovolo-moulded single light and hood to right of door.

Old Jockey Cottages Nos 4 and 5, behind, have ridge stack, 2 similar dormer gables with 2-light windows and hoodmoulds, ground floor centre door, 2-light window with hood to right and door to right in angle to No 3. To left is slightly projected one window range with right end stack, rebuilt or new dormer gable and 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window and hood to each floor, upper window C20. Beyond, a C20 extension.

Comment: My great grandparents, surname Gale, lived at the Old Jockey at the turn of the century. I don't know whether they lived in one of these cottages or at the Old Jockey pub. Their daughter, Evelyn, married David Franklin
John Franklin, 20 November 2011

Old Jockey House with screen wall (formerly listed as The Old Jockey Inn)
Inn, now house, dated 1737, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic, formal 5-window front with raised angle piers, moulded string course, moulded cornice and parapet swept up to panelled piers at centre and angles. Three hipped dormers. Twelve-pane sashes in raised bead-moulded surrounds and centre first floor arched-headed window with raised surround, moulded imposts and keystone with carved date. Central flush panelled door 3-pane overlight in raised moulded surround with hood on carved brackets. Between right side and No 3 Old Jockey Cottages (q.v.) is screen wall with 2 blank panels in raised moulded surrounds and centre archway with impost and keyblocks. Formerly the Old Jockey Inn.

Oriel/Ford

Park Farmhouse, Wadswick Lane
House and barn, late C18, house extended in C19, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof. Original range is barn with half-hipped gables and projecting lean-to central cart entry. Right side of barn is one-room plan house with paired casement on each floor and east end stack. House extended to east with roof hipped at south-east angle and gabled to north. Two storeys, casement windows. Attached to south-west angle of barn, open fronted L-plan range of stalls. Barn has 4-bay single purlin roof with collar trusses. Wall to house section is of thin timber frame and brick.

Parker monument

Pear Tree cottage, Quarry Hill
House, late C17, ashlar fronted with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys, double fronted with 2 coped dormer gables, dripcourse over ground floor and moulded plinth. Ovolo-moulded recessed mullion windows with casements, two 2-light with hoodmoulds to dormer gables, two 3-light with hoodmoulds to first floor and two 3-light to ground floor. Central C20 door in moulded flush surround with hood on brackets. Stone tiled extension to right with coped gable and one 2-light flush mullion window. Rear north-east wing with coped gable.

Pictor monument

Pinchin monument in churchyard about 4m east of chancel, north-east angle of Church of St.Christopher, Ditteridge
Chest tomb, late C18, ashlar with 2 pennant stone plaques each side and fielded piers to centre and  angles. Moulded base and cornice. Oval end plaques. South side inscription to W.Pinchin, died 1795.

Pinchin monument in churchyard about 4m south of organ chamber of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 shield plaques each side, foliate centre pier and fluted angle  pilasters. Moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze breaking forward over piers. North side inscription to Esther Pinchin.

Pleasant View, Nos 1 to 3 (consec) Pleasant View, Lower Kingsdown Road
Row of three cottages, C17 and C18, rubble stone with corrugated iron and Bridgwater tile roofs. One storey and attic.

No 1 has coped left end gable and ridge stack at right end. One 2-light ovolo-moulded window with dripstone in end wall. Front first floor casement, ground floor C20 lean-to and 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window and dripstone.

No 2, early C18, has right coped gable and end stack, 2 dormer gables with 2-light windows, one with hood, one with dripmould and ground floor single light, door and 3-light window. All windows flush cyma-moulded, door in C20 porch.

No 3 is later C18 extension with coped end gable, truncated stack, C20 dormer, door in chamfered surround with single cyma-moulded light to right. Two-light cyma-moulded rear window.

Poynder Fountain, The Poynder Fountain
Drinking fountain, dated 1878, ashlar with pink granite column shafts and grey granite base with bowl to front and trough to rear. Ornate Gothic structure with ashlar crocketted Gothic gable to front and rear carried on 2 ashlar piers rising from the grey granite base paired with outer pink granite piers rising from ground level. Narrow pierced side openings with small gable. Centre front gable is pierced by pointed arch, richly carved with Poynder arms in apex. Rear similar arch is infilled by open 2 arch screen with cusping and cusped trefoil over. Granite centre and side shafts, centre capital is bronze with griffin water spouts at angles. Rear inscription recording W.H. Poynder of Hartham Park as donor of fountain and Col. Northey as donor of the spring and site. Formerly surrounded by ornate iron railings, of which the stone plinth survives.

Pye Corner, No 4 Pye Corner and Lamb Cottage, Devizes Road
Pair of cottages, late C17 or early C18 origins, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roofs. Two storeys, one-window range each.
No 4 has been heightened in ashlar, recessed ovolo-moulded 2-light window to each floor, hoodmould over ground floor window and door to left in C20 porch. Flush quoins at north-west angle.

Lamb Cottage has coped south-east gable and end wall stack, first floor recessed ovolo-moulded 2-light window over 6-panel door in chamfered surround with similar 3-light mullion window to left.

Queen's Head Inn, The Queen's Head Inn
Inn, early C18 extended in late C18, ashlar with Bridgwater tile main roof, slates to west extension, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic. Main range has 2 hipped dormers with leaded lights, raised quoins and cyma-moulded mullion windows in architrave frames with dripstones. Four-light window with king mullion to ground and first floors to left, 3-light window to first floor right. Ground floor right has pair of 12-pane thick glazing bar sashes in bead-moulded surrounds with dripstone over. Central Roman Doric projecting ashlar porch with 2 columns and pilaster responds. Studded plank door. Oval panel above in carved laurel frame. To left, late C18 extension with hipped dormer, raised bands over each floor, paired 8-pane first floor sashes in flush surrounds, paired 8-pane ground floor sashes in flush surround and 6-panel door. Rear wing, Bridgwater tiled with half-hipped north gable and 2-light attic mullion window. Various C19 additions behind main range.

Rectory, The Rectory, Church Lane
House, mid C19, small ashlar block with slate valley roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Three storeys with flush quoins, and raised bands at first and second floors. East front has 2 pairs of 6-pane attic sashes, first floor pair of 12-pane sashes and pair of plate glass sashes and ground floor 12-pane sash next to 6-panel door in Roman Doric ashlar porch and pair of plate glass sashes. One window range 2-storey extension to right. To left is incorporated small part of rear of Spring Grove (q.v.) with small 12-pane sash at ground floor. West front is similar but with sash windows throughout, 2 pairs of 6-pane attic windows, 2 pairs of 12-pane windows to first and ground floors and a central wall-face
stack. Purchased as Rectory in late Cl9. Included. for group value.

Railway Tunnels - see later

Ramsay monument

Rogers monument

Rookery Nook, Hazelbury Hill
House, late C18 or early Cl9, ashlar with concrete tile roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two storeys, double fronted with first floor band and two 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to each floor. Central 6-panel door in chamfered surround with hood on brackets. Short ashlar addition to left end with door, coped gable and end wall stack. At right end, remains of 2-storey cottage row, Cl9, small ashlar block with slate roof, 2-window range of sash windows and door with hood on brackets. Included for group value.

Rudloe Cottage
Estate cottage of Hartham estate, c1850, ashlar with stone tiled roof, rear wall stack and west end stack. One and a half storeys, picturesque Tudor Gothic style with cusped bargeboards and wooden  finials to gables. South front has projecting gabled 2-storey porch to right with moulded pointed archway and hoodmould, corbel course and dripcourse above and upper 2-light mullion window and hoodmould. Single lights with hoods to ground floor sides and blank single lights with hoods to first floor sides. To left, one window range of 2-light windows and dormer gable. Left end wing with 2-light ground floor window, paired west gables with 2 upper 2-light windows and C20 ashlar single storey west extension. East gable end, to road, has one window range of 3-light windows with cusped arched heads and hoodmoulds. Circular light over upper window. Rear wall has similar single light to left of stack and 2-light to right.

Rudloe Manor
Manor House, late C17, rubble stone with steep stone tiled hipped roof and central ridge stack of 4 clustered diagonal shafts. Two storeys and attic. Two hipped dormers. Four-window range of recessed 3-light mullion windows with dripcourse over each floor stepped as hoodmould over windows.  Relieving arches over ground floor hoods. Centre has oval light to each floor. One-window range to end walls, hipped dormer over 3-light windows with stepped dripcourse. To right of south end, rear wing with later C19 two and a half storey Tudor style porch tower with coped gable, mullion and transom first floor window and Tudor-arched openings on 3 sides of ground floor. Rear 3 gables, largely rebuilt or extended in Cl9 and C20. Running north is wing apparently late medieval with west side wall stack flanked by first floor cusped C15 single light to right and C19 or restored 2-light window to left, north end cusped single light and east side 2-light cusped mullion-and-transom window. Manor recorded from early C13. Interior altered. House probably built c1685 for T. Goddard.

Rudloe Manor, Entrance gates and screen to Rudloe Manor
Gatepiers and railings, early to mid C18, 2 main ashlar gatepiers with fielded panels, moulded cornices and ball finials. To each side spearhead iron rails with some wrought iron scroll work connecting to smaller ashlar piers with fielded panels and cornice. Beyond, C20 spearhead iron rails connecting to plain ashlar outer piers.

Rudloe Manor, Barn to South West of

Barn, C17 or C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and opposed hipped projecting cart-entries. C20 inserted mullion windows and glazing to cart-entries, fireplaces and end-wall stacks. Interior has inserted ceiling. Included for group value.

Rudloe Park Hotel
House c1875 by J. Hicks of Redruth for H.R.Pictor, quarry owner. Small ashlar block walls with ashlar dressings, slate roofs, coped gables and ashlar stacks. Two storeys and attic with 4-storey tower. High Victorian Gothic style, less elaborate but similar to Fogleigh House, Bath Road (q.v.). Symmetrical west garden front, 3-window range with ornate central projecting canted bay rising through eaves to large attic bay capped with hipped pyramid roof. Moulded band, sill course and eaves. Windows generally of mullion and transom type elaborated with shouldered heads, pilaster central mullion and pellet ornament on transom. Two-light windows each side and 1-3-1 arrangement to canted bay. Attic bay has square piers with naturalistic carved capitals dividing lights, piers on battered plinths, originally linked by pierced balustrading, which survives to side lights only. Large ridge stack to right of pyramid roof. Gabled south end wall has mullion and transom 2-light windows to main floors and plainer flush attic mullion and transom window. To right, one window range of single lights with transom and canted bay of 1-2-1 lights, window and stringcourse details as on west front, but bay has hipped roof with dormer. Ridge stack to right of bay. North, entrance front, is complex asymmetrical elevation linked to west front by single storey former conservatory with canted corners, pilaster piers and stilted pointed heads to windows. Pierced parapet. Narrow 3-storey section to right of entrance tower. Tower with deep set pointed door flanked by side lights, piers with leaf carved capitals supporting heavy carved brackets to first floor balcony. Pierced roundels in balcony and 3-light mullion and transom window above similar to those on west front. Above, 3 plain lights between heavy brackets to second floor balcony, curved-ended with pierced roundels and 2-storey plate traceried 3-light window with moulded pointed head. Top moulded cornice and flat parapet with pierced roundels. To right, large 3-light mullion and transom window with string course and sill course under 2-storey window recessed in pointed arch reaching into a dormer gable, mullion-and -transom lower part and 3 cusped pointed lights above. East end stack. To left, a 2-storey, 3-window service range, 2-light windows, shouldered heads to ground floor windows. Interior altered but central stair with iron balusters and tall 3-light east side stair light in arched Gothic frame.

Saltbox Farmhouse, Drewetts Mill
Farmhouse, dated 1784, rubble stone with concrete plain tile roof, coped gables, end wall stacks and ridge stack at original end wall. Two storeys, 3-window range. The original house was double fronted with flush quoins, raised string course, two 2-light bead-moulded mullion windows to each floor and central door. Ground floor left window is larger with 8-pane casements, between upper windows a stone sundial, door in moulded flush doorcase with 'Thos. Evill Bathford 1784' inscribed and hood on brackets over. The left side is Cl9 ashlar extension with 12-pane sash to each floor. Outshut rear with door in chamfered doorcase and C20 hood and C20 bead-moulded windows.

Scrill monument

Sewage Ventilation Stack, Quarry Hill
Sewage ventilation stack. Dated 1886; made by J. Stone and Co. Ltd. of Deptford, London. Cast-iron. Moulded fluted pedestal with inscription on base with maker's name and date, tall plain shaft and flared top with pierced cresting.

Seymer monument

Shell monument

Shepherd's Close, Ditteridge
House, C17 and C18, rubble stone with thatched roof, coped gables and east end ashlar stack to  original range and lower east extension with stone tiled roof, coped east gable and end wall stack. One and a half storeys. Main range has 2 gabled dormers with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded windows and hoodmoulds, one similar window to ground floor left and C18 3-light bead-moulded flush mullion window to right. central door in gabled stone tiled porch, keyed oval light in front wall and door in side wall. C18 extension to right has single coped dormer gable and 2-light cyma-moulded flush mullion windows, one dormer gable, 2 to ground floor, that to left a C20 replacement of doorway and one to east end wall, all with dripstones. Interior: original range has large timber lintel fireplace.

Sheylor's Farmhouse, Ashley (formerly listed as Shaylor's Farmhouse )
Farmhouse, late C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys, 5-window range. Flush quoins and moulded dripcourses over main floors, lower dripcourse incomplete. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows. Two dormer gables, each with 2-light window and hoodmould, 5 first floor 2-light windows and ground floor windows replaced each side by paired 12-pane sashes. Central plank door in moulded doorcase. Early Cl9 column porch with flat hood and cushion capitals to columns. South end wall has 2-light window to each floor, hoodmould over lower window and dripcourse continued from front over upper window. Rear wall centre 2-light stair window. Rear wing, one storey and attic, with part stone-tiled roof and half hipped east gable.

Sheylor's Farm, Barn at, North of the Farmhouse
Barn, late C17 or C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and opposed gabled cart entries. Roof carried down over lean-to to right of front cart entry. Seven bays, tie-beam-and-collar trusses. Roof in poor condition 1985.

Slade's Farmhouse, Ditteridge
Farmhouse, early C17 and C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs, coped north end gable, north end stack and ridge stack. One and a half to two storeys. L-plan. West front has, from left, dormer gable with blocked 2-light recessed chamfer-moulded mullion window with hoodmould over C19 slate roofed lean-to; 2-light bead-moulded mullion window over door; 2-light recessed mullion window over 3-light recessed chamfer-moulded mullion window and hoodmould; ground floor casement pair. South end wall has 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded windows to attic and first floor, both with hoodmoulds, attic window blocked. Rear east side has dormer gable to right and 3-light recessed chamfer-moulded window with hoodmould to each floor, door to left, then timber lintel over inserted 2-light window and, to left, 2-light bead-moulded upper window. Wing, apparently C18, has large ashlar stack on south wall with 2-light bead-moulded windows, one each side of stack to ground floor and one to first floor left. North side has one similar window to first floor right, central door in chamfered surround with 2-light window each side. East end outbuilding with half-hipped stone tiled roof. Marked on F.Allen map of 1630.

Spa Cottage, Middlehill
Outbuildings to Spa House (q.v.), now cottage, late C18 and C19, rubble stone and ashlar with stone tiled roofs. Earliest part in centre, with mansard roof, coped gables and north end stack. One 16-pane hipped dormer, 16-pane first floor sash and altered ground floor. To left, an ashlar fronted C19 coach house with south end stack. Three upper sashes, raised band and ground floor door with large coach doors to right. To right of centre, C19 2 storey range with coped north gable and north lean-to. Flush cyma-moulded mullion windows. One 2-light over door with 2-light window each side, additional door and sole light to right and single light on right end lean-to. Include for group value.

Spa House
House, late C18, ashlar with stone tiled mansard roof, coped gables and end stacks. Three storeys and attic, 3-window range. Two hipped dormers. Formal front with raised plinth, band, moulded cornice and parapet, all carried around 2 full-height canted bays with 8-16-8 pane sashes. Twelve-pane sash to second floor centre, 12-pane arched-head sash with traceried head to first floor centre and 4-panel half-glazed door in moulded architrave with hood on brackets. The Spa at Box was recorded in 1786 as having a pump-room and boarding house. (N.Pevsner: Wiltshire 1975, 220.)

Speke, J. H. Speke monument on footpath to Lents Green, about 250m north-north-west of Wormwood Farmhouse
Monument, 1865, ashlar with pyramid cap and iron railings closely surrounding. Inscribed 'Here the distinguished and enterprising African Traveller Captain John Hanning Speke lost his life by the accidental explosion of his gun September 15th 1864'. J. H. Speke discovered the source of the Nile in 1858, confirmed in his subsequent expedition of 1860-3, but the discoveries were challenged by Sir R.Burton, and the two were to have publicly debated the issue at the meeting of the British Association in Bath, 16th September 1864.

Spencer's Farmhouse, Ashley
House, C17 possibly with medieval origins, rubble stone with thatched roof, ridge stack and west end stack. One and a half storeys. Three coped dormer gables with 2-light mullion windows, recessed frame and timber mullion. Ground floor, from left, casement pair, 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with small-paned lights, small pointed light, possibly medieval, door in chamfered flush surround with hood on brackets, 2-light flush cyma-moulded window with small-paned lights and C19 4-pane  casement. Rear has 2 dormer gables with 2-light windows, centre casement dormer and ground floor 2-light recessed hollow moulded mullion window with hoodmould, small rectangular opening, possibly medieval and door. Bridgwater-tiled east end extension. Interior: Tudor arched stone fireplace backing on cross passage. Chamfered and stopped beams.

Spring Grove, Church Lane
House, mid C18, squared rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables, south end wall stacks and ridge stack to rear range. Two storeys and attic. West front has 2 hipped small-paned dormers and 3-window range of bead-moulded flush mullion windows, flush quoins and raised floor band. Two 2-light and one 3-light upper windows, two 3-light lower windows with central 6-panel door in raised bead-moulded surround with hood on brackets. Rear range, partly late C18 ashlar, rendered, has 2 hipped dormers to mansard roof, first floor French window and 16-pane sash and ground floor 12-pane sash, plank door and 8-pane sash.  Interior of front range has fielded 6-panel doors, closed string stair with column balusters, moulded cornices to left side room and moulded stone fireplaces.

Springfield House, Church Lane (Flats 1 to 8) (formerly listed as The Old School)
Parish workhouse and school, now flats, 1729, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Three and a half storeys, L-plan. Tall main front of 3 storeys each with dripcourse over and 6 window range of 2-light bead-moulded flush mullion windows. Attic storey of paired central tall dormer gables and similar dormer gable at each end, each with 2-light bead-moulded mullion window and hoodmould. End walls had 2 single light windows with hoodmoulds to each floor, ground floor east end windows blocked. Rear wing has 2-light window to each main floor on west side. Attached to rear, large C20 stair tower and access balconies to flats. (N.Pevsner Wiltshire 1975 124)

St. Christopher's, Ditteridge
House possibly converted from C17 or C18 barn, rubble stone with thatched roof and end wall stacks. One storey and attic. Two casement pairs, plank door with tiled timber hood and casement pair in rebuilt squared stone wall to right. Rear has 3 large C19 hipped casement dormers at eaves and ground floor 2 casement pairs, door and casement pair. Two storey C19 north-west addition. Interior has heavy timbered single purlin roof with tie-beam-and-collar trusses.

St. Jude's Cottage, No 4 The Parade
House, late C17 origins and later C18, rubble stone Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables, ridge stack and end-wall stacks. Two storeys and attic. Front remodelled in later C18, right side has C17 origins, left probably later C18. Two first floor paired 12-pane sashes in moulded architrave frames. Ground floor left has large projecting late C19 shop, ground floor right has floor band over 12-pane sashes and 6-panel door in moulded architrave with hood on brackets. One slate hipped dormer to this side. Rear of this section has first floor 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window. Left side has one 12-pane sash in moulded architrave to first floor of end wall and C19 parallel rear range.

Stanley House and Stoney Steps, High Street
Pair of houses, late C18, squared rubble stone with Bridgwater tile mansard roofs and coped gables. Stanley House is rendered and painted, double fronted with end wall stacks. Two storeys and attic, one hipped dormer, 3-window range below with blank centre window and C20 windows replacing sashes in flush surrounds to first floor and replacing paired sashes to ground floor. Central door in projecting porch. Outbuilding at left end and 2-storey C19 parallel rear range. Stoney Steps is of similar height, unpainted, one window range with end wall stack. Hipped dormer, first floor 12-pane sash and ground floor paired 8-pane sashes with door to left. Gabled rear wing.

Strong monument

Telephone Kiosk K6
Telephone kiosk. Type K6. Designed 1935 by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Made by various contractors. Cast iron. Square kiosk with domed roof. Unperforated crowns to top panels and margin glazing to windows and doors.

Toll-House, The Old Toll-House, Devizes Road
Road Toll house, c1830-40, small ashlar block with slate low pitched hipped roof centre ridge stack and 2 rear wall stacks. One storey Tudor-style, with central canted bay and one-window range each side. Two-light unmoulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. Canted bay has hipped roof, Tudor-arched centre door in raised surround and window to each side. End walls have similar window. C20 rear additions.

Townsend Cottage and No 2 (formerly listed as Townsend Villas)
Two houses, late C17 and C18, squared rubble stone with imitation stone tile roofs.

Townsend Cottage is rebuilt in C18, with coped gables, west end stack, ridge stack and north-east rear wall stack. Two storeys and attic. Flush quoins, raised floor band. Four-window range, those to left set lower with first floor 12-pane sash and ground floor pair of 12-pane sashes, the rest of front near symmetrical with first floor pairs of 12-pane windows, one sash, one fixed, flanking central 12-pane sash and ground floor similar pair to left of central 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on brackets. To right blocked window with remnant of 3-light mullion window. East end wall is ashlar faced and formally treated with early to mid C18 detail. Raised plinth, floor band and moulded cornice, central 6-pane attic window, 2 blank first floor windows in raised moulded surrounds and remnant of 2 similar below replaced by a central pair of 12-pane sashes of late C18 type, similar to those on front elevation.  Townsend cottage is said to have deeds dating to 1728.

Townsend, No 2 Townsend, to right, has late C17 origins but C19 roof pitch. Coped west gable. Front has wall-face stack to left, then C18 former door with moulded doorcase hood on brackets and C20 inserted window. Immediately to right blocked door with hoodmould stepped down over 3-light ovolo-moulded mullion window with small paned casements. Above, similar 2-light window with small panes and sash opening light. End wall has early C19 16-pane upper window, 20-pane lower window and door. Rear wing, stone tiled has late C18 two-light flush cyma-moulded mullion window above and remnants of 2 similar below, replaced by 16-pane sash and door in north end lean-to.

Townsend House (Formerly listed as Townsend Villas)
House, early to mid C19, ashlar fronted with slate roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. Three storeys, 3-window range with blank centre windows. Raised plinth, platband, first floor sill-course and eaves band. Upper outer windows with 3 long panes each, 4-pane outer first floor and ground floor sashes, central 6-panel door with hood on brackets. Rear wing with coped gable and north end wall stack.

Tugwell monument

Turnpike Cottage, Blue Vein
Toll House, early C19, ashlar faced and squared rubble stone with stone tiled hipped roof, west side stack. Two storeys. Ashlar canted south end to road with floor band, 12-pane sashes to sides on both floors, blank first floor centre window and ashlar flat porch with 12-pane sash replacing central door. Two C20 east side windows and C20 hipped-roof addition to rear.

Unidentified Monuments

Vezey monument

Wadswick Farmhouse
Farmhouse, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, coped south gable with end wall stack and 2 ridge stacks. One and a half storeys. Recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds. West front has large gable to right and 2 dormer gables to left. Gable has apex keyed oval panel with dripstone, upper 3-light window with small single light to left, ground floor 2-light with door to left in moulded segmental-arched doorcase with hoodmould. Dormer gables each have 3-light windows, but left window has recessed chamfered mullions. Two 3-light windows below. South end wall has attic single light without hoodmould, and 3-light to each floor below. Rear chimney gable. Late C18 or C19 rear wing with east end wall stack and 3-light bead-moulded mullion window to first floor front and ground floor rear. Rear of main range has small window under eaves, ground floor 2-light and 3-light windows with hoodmoulds and C20 porch to right.

Wadswick Farmhouse, Stable range to north-west of Wadswick Farmhouse
Range of outbuildings, late C18 and earlier, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roofs and some stone tiles. L-plan. At west end, 2-storey stable with loft over. Flush quoins, upper loading door with vent loop each side and ground floor door in flush surround with 2-light recessed mullion window, probably reused, to right. Attached to east is lower L-plan cattle stall, open to south, with gabled outbuilding attached to south end. Outbuilding is part stone tiled and has south end door in flush surround with voussoirs over and, to left, 2 small recessed lancets, possibly reused.

Wadswick Farmhouse, Barn to West of, Wadswick Lane
Barn, C17, rubble stone with stone tiled roof, projecting gabled east cart entry and blocked low flush west entry. Bridgwater-tiled lean-to on north end. Interior not inspected.

Weston monument

White Cottage, The White Cottage, Doctors Hill
House, late C17 or early C18, painted rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. One and a half storeys, double fronted with 2 dormer gables and recessed ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, 2-light to each dormer gable, single light and 3 light below. Central C20 gabled porch. Single light with hoodmould to south end wall. Rear has one dormer gable with 2-light window and hoodmould and 2 ground floor 2-light windows with hoodmoulds. South end wall has date 1704 scratched on a cornerstone.

Widdenham Farmhouse, Colerne
Mill house, now farmhouse, late C17, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables and truncated end wall stacks. Two and a half storeys, L-plan. 2 dormer gables with casement windows. 5-window range to main floors, aluminium windows replacing glazing bar sashes in early C18 stone surrounds with moulded sills and formerly with moulded cornices over, chiselled off for C19 cement render, now removed. Fine moulded doorcase with rose carved in lintel and stone hood on brackets. C20 porch. 2 rear dormer gables with oval lights, 2 first floor 2-light ovolo-moulded windows with
hoodmoulds. Ground floor lean-to. Rear wing has end wall stack and dormer gable to inner face with 2-light ovolo-moulded window and hoodmould. Probably the 'very convenient sash'd house' advertised for sale with the woollen mill in 1752. Woollen mill recorded from the C17. (K. Rogers: Wiltshire and Somerset Woollen Mills 1976, 175.)

Wilderness, The Wilderness
Marked on O.S. as Becket Mill. House, mid to later C18 and c1840, ashlar with stone tiled mansard roof to earlier range and slate low pitched hipped roof to c1840 west end. Original range 2 storeys and attic, double fronted, with mansard roof, coped gables and end wall stacks. One dormer, two 16-pane sashes of c1800 type to each floor, raised band and blocked central door in raised moulded surround. To rear is ashlar stair tower with hipped roof flanked by outshut roofs. At west end is large range added for G.Mullins c1840, 2 storeys and basement with 3-window west front of 16-pane outer sashes, 12-pane first floor centre sash and projecting ashlar enclosed porch with pilaster surround to double doors. Ground floor 16-pane windows have margin lights. Similar south end ground floor window, floor band and sunk panel above with small oval light. Three storey north end wall. On part of site of large Roman villa, a mill site from the early middle ages, deeds of 1727 recording 2 tenements and 2 water grist mills.

Willow Cottage, Beech Road
House, late C18, squared rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof, coped gables and east end stack. Two storeys, double fronted with two 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to each floor and central C20 casement in chamfered former doorcase. Single storey extension to right with coped gable, end wall stack and door. Main ends have blocked attic light.

Wilton monument

Wiltshire monument

Woodstock Cottages Nos 1 to 3 (consec), Mill Lane
Cottage pair, extended, early C18, rubble stone with stone tiled roofs. Coped gables and end wall stacks to original range, coped gable and east end stack to No 1, half-hipped west gable to west extension. Two storeys. Original range, Nos 2 and 3, has 4-window range of recessed cyma-moulded mullion windows, four 2-light first floor windows, dripcourse over ground floor 2-light, door, 3-light, 2-light, door and 4-light window. Plank doors in chamfered flush surrounds. A small stone gable at eaves, off-centre, repeated to rear. No 1, at left end, is of squared rubble and one window range of flush unmoulded 2-light mullion windows with plank door to right, probably C19. Extension to No 3 at right end, has ground floor glazed lean-to and ashlar blank upper wall.

Wormcliffe House
House, C17 on medieval core, rubble stone with Bridgwater tile roof and coped gables, 2 ridge stacks. Two storeys. West front 5-window range with central C20 stone tiled cross-passage axis with, to left, dormer gable with 2-light recessed ovolo-moulded mullion-and-transom window and hoodmould over ground floor 3-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould, and, to right, dormer gable with 2-light recessed chamfered mullion window and hoodmould over 2-light ovolo-moulded window with hoodmould. Straight joint to right and dormer gable with 2-light flush bead-moulded window over projecting ashlar single storey range. Left side has one-window range of 2-light flush bead-moulded windows, hoodmould to ground floor window. North end wall has C20 three-light bead-moulded upper window and C20 bead-moulded door with hoodmould. South end wall has recessed ovolo-moulded 2-light upper window and single light below. East front has left end with ground floor 2-light flush cyma-moulded window, then straight joint and dormer gable with 2-light flush bead-moulded windows with hoodmoulds to both floors. Central stone-tiled lean-to with 2-light window and chamfered inner  doorcase. Two-window range to right, 2-light bead-moulded windows above, 2-light windows with hoodmoulds below, one ovolo-moulded, one bead-moulded. Interior has Tudor-arched stone fireplace with keystone backing onto crass-passage and large timber-lintel fireplace to south. Marked on F Allen map of 1630 as Worms Cliffe. (Wiltshire Archaeological Magazine 49 176 pp 534-6.)

Wormcliffe House, Garden House, known as the Chapel in grounds of Wormcliffe House
Outbuilding, uncertain date incorporating one small west end medieval lancet. Rubble stone, coped gables, stone tile roof. East end opening with timber lintel and central stone pier.

Wormwood Farm Cottages Nos 1 and 2, Devizes Road
Pair of cottages, late C18, extended, rubble stone with slate roofs, coped gables, end wall stacks and ridge stack at original end wall. Two storeys. Original pair has flush quoins and one-window range of 2-light flush cyma-moulded mullion windows to each cottage and doors in chamfered doorcases to left. Door to No 1 is set in gabled ashlar porch with stone tiles and shallow arched entry. Door to No 2 has hood on brackets. No 2 has been extended to right by one window range of similar but longer Cl9 two-light windows.

Wormwood Farmhouse, Devizes Road
Farmhouse, late C17, roughcast rubble stone with roof part stone tiled part plain tiled. Coped gables, paired north end wall stacks and rear wall stack behind left end. Two and a half storeys. Formal east front with 2 dormer gables and 3-window range. Ovolo-moulded mullion windows with hoodmoulds, 3-light outer windows, 2-light to first floor centre. Ground floor outer windows are mullion-and-transom. Centre 6-panel door in raised moulded surround with hood on scroll brackets. South end wall has similar ground floor mullion and transom window and 2-light mullion window above. Three diagonal shafts to rear stack. Large 1901 rear extension with centre gable and gables to north and south, south gable with initials G.P.F. for G.P Fuller of Neston Park, west side stack dated 1901.

MONUMENTS

CHURCHYARD St THOMAS

Baker Monument in Churchyard About 7 Metres South of Chancel of Church

Chest tomb, mid C18, with raised oval south plaque and floral strip each side, 2 rectangular north plaques, fielded corner piers, moulded base and cornice. Shield plaque to west end. Earliest inscription to J. Baker died 1740, on south side.

Bayly Monument in Churchyard About 9 Metres South of Lee Monument, South of Chancel of Church

Double-height chest tomb, mid C18, ashlar. Lower section with raised central fielded plaques to north and south, flanked by fielded strips. Fielded end panels with carved drops to angles. Moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze. Top section with fielded panels each side flanked by foliate scrolls, fielded end panels and moulded capstone, breaking forward over side panels. Inscriptions to members of the Bayly family.

Bowdler Monument in Churchyard About 16 Metres South of Gatepiers, South East of Church

Double chest tomb, late C18, ashlar with single oval plaque to each side, fluted angle piers and moulded base and cornice. Inscriptions to T. and E. S. Bowdler, dates indecipherable. The family of the editor of "The Family Shakespeare".

Brown monument in churchyard about 12m north of north-east angle of north-east chapel of Church
Chest tomb, c1830, pennant stone with 2 wreathed oval side plaques, baluster corners, moulded base and ridged capstone. Two rectangular north plaques with plant spray between. Inscriptions to W.J.Brown, died 1827 and B.Brown died 1826.

Bullock monument in churchyard about 9m east of south-east angle of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, mid to later C18, ashlar with 2 shield plaques each side and fielded piers with central rosette, shield end south, moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze breaking forward over piers. Monument is adjacent to path to Church Cottage.

Elliott monument in churchyard about 16m north of north-east buttress of tower of Church
Chest tomb, c1832, ashlar with reeded angle piers sides with horizontal fluting and reversed trapeze-shaped plaque. Moulded base and stepped cap with ridged topstone. Earliest decipherable  date 1832.

Eyles monument in churchyard about 6m south of south-west angle of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 fielded plaques each side, plain ends, moulded base and cornice with fluted frieze. North side inscription to E.Eyles died 1855, west end decipherable date of 1831.

Ford monument in churchyard about 5m south of Neat monument, south-south-east of chancel Church
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 octagonal north plaques and 2 shield south plaques, fluted piers between and to angles. Moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze. Inscription to Deborah Ford north side.

Gale monument in churchyard about 8m south of Lee monument, south of chancel of Church
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 recessed panels each side and moulded capstone.

Gibbon monument in churchyard about 6m south of south-east angle of south aisle of Church
Chest tomb, late C18 ashlar with 2 south side framed panels, fielded end panels and moulded capstone. North side panel fallen in (January 1985). South side inscription to Mary Gibbon.

Gisford monument in churchyard about 2m east of north-east angle of vestry, of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb mid to later C18, ashlar with 2 plaques on north side in rococo frames, fielded angle piers with husk drop. Moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze. Earliest dicipherable inscription to W.Gisford died 1771.

Goodyer Monument in churchyard about lm east of Mitchell Monument, south-east of Church
Chest tomb, late C18, ashlar with pennant slab top. Plain sides with 2 incised plaques. Earliest decipherable inscription to R.Goodyer 1794.

Head monument in churchyard about 3m north of west side of north door of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with battered slab sides and incised frame around inscriptions. Ridged capstone. Inscription to John Head.

Iddols monument in churchyard about 13m north of north aisle east buttress of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, c1845, ashlar with 2 rectangular plaques each side, fielded centre and angle piers, moulded base and cornice. Ridged top stone. Inscription to J.Iddols, died 1844.

Lee monument in churchyard about lm south of chancel south-east angle of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar raised on plinth, formerly with railings. Two plaques each side, baluster corners, moulded base and cornice. Inscription to James Lee died 1770.

Little Monument in churchyard about 1.5m south of Bullock monument, east of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with pennant stone top slab. Plain slab sides with incised plaques. Earliest inscription on top slab to J. Little (died 1816) and H. Little (died 1812). Monument is adjacent to path to Church Cottage.

Mitchell monument in churchyard about lm west of Goodyer monument, south-south-east of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with slab top and sides. Sides with 2 plaques, fluted angle strips and reeded centre strip. Top slab inscribed to W. Mitchell, died 1812.

Mullins monument in churchyard about lm south of Baker monument, south of chancel of Church of  St. Thomas
Chest tomb, mid to later C18, ashlar with 2 shield plaques each side and plaque each, end, all flanked by Roman Doric columns. Moulded base and cornice breaking forward at columns. Ridged top stone. East end plaque has 3 carved cherub heads. All inscriptions recut in C19, earliest date 1733.

George Mullins died 1733, wife Elizabeth died 1766, daughter Susannah (wife of James Phillips) died 1778; James Phillips died 1786; Edward Mullins died 1746 and his wife Lydia; Jane Mullins died 1816; George Mullins died 1842 and his wife Mary died 1844. Edward Mullins, son of George, tenant farmer of Slade Farm and father of George Mullins (1728-1796 on other monument) longtime schoolmaster and parish clerk at Box. Lydia, nee Lovell. George Mullins (1759 - 1842) followed his father as schoolmaster and with his brother and sister ran several academies.
Submitted by D Mullins on 21 July 2012

Mullins monument in churchyard about 1.5m east of chancel of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar, raised on plinth and formerly surrounded by railings. Two arched head plaques each side with fluted Corinthian pilasters between and to angles. Arched head plaque each end. Moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze, ridged top stone. North side inscription to G.Mullins, died 1796.

Oriel/Ford monument in churchyard about 3m south of organ chamber of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, mid C18, ashlar with 2 rectangular panels each side and one each end. Moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze. North side inscription to J. Oriel died 1756 and members of the Ford family from 1695.

Parker monument in churchyard about 15m north of north-east buttress of tower of Church
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with low relief oval side plaque flanked by drapery drops and plant decoration to angle piers. Moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze.

Pictor monument in churchyard about lm north of Strong monument, north of north door of Church
Chest tomb, mid C19, ashlar with 3 Gothic panels each side separated by buttresses, Gothic end panels, moulded base and ridged top stone over capstone. Inscriptions to members of the Pictor family, quarry owners, earliest decipherable date 1857.

Ramsay monument in churchyard about 3m north of north aisle east buttress of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, c1840, ashlar with battered sides and inscriptions in incised frames. Ridged capstone.

Rogers monument in churchyard about 8m south of organ chamber of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, mid to later C18, ashlar with 2 shield plaques each side, fielded centre and angle piers and moulded cornice with pulvinated frieze breaking forward over piers. South side inscription to M. Rogers died 1760 and W. Rogers Sr died 1763.

Scrill monument in churchyard about 4m south of south-east buttress of south aisle of Church
Chest tomb, mid C18, ashlar with 2 shield plaques each side, fluted pilasters to centre and angles and shield end plaques. Moulded base and cornice with pulvinated frieze breaking forward over pilasters. South side plaque to W.Scrill died 1754, north side plaques to E.Osmond and M.Bull.

Seymer monument in churchyard about lm west of Baker monument south of chancel of Church
Chest tomb, early Cl9, ashlar with pennant stone top slab. Two plain incised plaques each side. Top inscription to G.Seymer, died 1811.

Shell monument in churchyard about 6m south of Bullock monument south-east of Church
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 plaques each side, rectangular with quadrant curved lower corners, fluted central strip and fielded angle piers. Moulded base and cornice. Monument is adjacent to path to Church Cottage.

Strong monument in churchyard about 4m north.of east side of north door of Church of St. Thomas
Urn memorial, mid Cl9, ashlar. Large ornate carved stone urn on pedestal with moulded base. Inscription to Thomas Strong of Fogleigh, died 1851.

Vezey monument in churchyard about 18m south of gatepiers, south-east of Church of St. Thomas
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with 2 incised plaques each side, slightly recessed end plaques. Moulded cornice.

Weston monument in churchyard about 1.5m east of Mullins monument east of chancel of Church
Chest tomb, later C18, ashlar with 2 recessed plaques each side and recessed end plaques. Coved capstone. Base not visible. Inscription to H.Weston on north side.

Wiltshire monument in churchyard about 14m north of north-east buttress of tower of Church
Chest tomb, c1825, ashlar with 2 rectangular side plaques, angle pilasters, moulded base and cornice and ridged topstone. Inscription to M.Wiltshre died 1824.

CHURCHYARD DITTERIDGE CHURCH

Colton monument in churchyard about 6m north of chancel, north-east angle of Church St. Christopher
Pedestal tomb, early C19, ashlar with oval plaques each side and Corinthian column corners. Moulded base, cornice and ridged cap carrying crown finial. North side inscription to Mrs M.Colton, died 1821.

Henly monument in churchyard about-6m south of nave south-east angle of Church of St. Christopher
Pedestal tomb, c1840, signed Pictor, Box, ashlar with inset white marble oval plaques each side. Moulded base and cap, ridged to draped urn finial. South side plaque with weeping willow over inscription to A.L.Henly, died 1838. Monument is raised on stone step carrying 6 twisted iron posts with cross finials and iron chains between.

Hooper monument in churchyard about 3m north of Wilton monument south-east of Church St Christ..
Double chest tomb, late C18 or early C19, ashlar with baluster corners, moulded base and cornice and 2 plaques divided by fluted strip to north and south. Oval plaques to east and west. Earliest decipherable inscription to J.Hooper, died 1811.

Le Vicount monument in churchyard about 3m north of nave north-east angle of St. Christopher
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with single plaque each side in incised border flanked by incised panels. Moulded base and capstone with ridged top stone and corner antefixae. South side inscription to A. Le Vicount, died 1826.

Tugwell monument in churchyard about 6m south of south-west angle of porch of St. Christopher
Chest tomb, early C19, ashlar with plinth, moulded base, capstone and ridged top stone. Single plaque each side stepped forward from rebated angles, incised line decoration. South side inscription to H.Tugwell, died 1821.

Wilton monument in churchyard about 6m south-east of chancel, south-east angle of St. Christopher
Pedestal tomb, early C19, ashlar with oval plaque each side, column corners, moulded base and ridged capstone carrying urn finial. West side inscription to T.Wilton died 1822

RAILWAY

East Portal of Middlehill Tunnel
Railway tunnel entrance, 1840 by I.K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway. Ashlar with some later refacing in brick. Ashlar classical archway flanked by curving retaining walls each side, refaced in brick, and terminated at circular piers. Main arch rusticated with heavy moulded console keystone and set back between piers each with recessed panel of massive fasces. Elemental Doric cornice, breaking forward over piers and ashlar parapet with moulded cornice. Identical in design to the West Portal (q.v.).

Railway Bridge, London Road
Road bridge over railway, c1840 by I. K. Brunel for Great Western Railway. Three-arched ashlar bridge with skew elliptical arches, taller in centre, unmoulded with plain frieze and moulded cornice under ashlar parapet with ridged capping. Battered splayed abutments each side and plain end piers. Main arch pierced with lateral arch each side.

Railway bridge at junction with road to Middlehill, Bath Road
Road bridge over railway, c1840 by I. K. Brunel for Great Western Railway. Ashlar skew-arched bridge with roll-moulded elliptical arch and carved keystone. Moulded cornice over and parapet with ridge coping. Ashlar piers each side, aligned with track and raking ashlar-faced abutments. Cornice carried around piers.

West portal of Box Tunnel, London Road
Tunnel entrance, c1840 by I.K. Brunel for Great Western Railway. Ashlar classical entrance flanked by ashlar curving abutments. Projecting centre with rusticated quoins, heavy bracket cornice and top balustrade with blank centre panel. Moulded tunnel archway with console keystone and panelled spandrels. Set back piers each side with simplified cornice and plain parapet. The entrance to 2,964 metre tunnel constructed 1836-41 with work force of between 1200 and 4000 men, the longest tunnel on the Great Western Railway. (Biddle and Nock: The Railway Heritage of Britain 1983 pp 224 and 232.)

West Portal of Middlehill Tunnel
Railway tunnel entrance, 1840 by I. K. Brunel for the Great Western Railway. Ashlar with some later repair in brick. Ashlar classical archway flanked by ashlar curving retaining walls and treminated at circular south pier and octagonal north pier. Main arch rusticated with heavy moulded console keystone and set back between piers, each with recessed panel of massive fasces. Elemental Doric cornice breaking forward over piers and ashlar parapet with moulded cornice. Identical in design to the East Portal (q.v.).

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