Description

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ST 99 SE
1360-/3/92
2.5.77

HANKERTON
CLOATLEY ROAD (north-side)
Store-house and animal-house to the south-east of Manor Farmhouse

GV
II*

Store-house and animal-house, built as cowhouse range. Datestone E/G/E 1706 set within stylised foliate design on pier. Coursed limestone rubble with square and circular
dressed stone piers and stone slate roof with corrugated asbestos slates to the end bay on right (west). Rectangular plan comprising long 6-bay colonnaded range with central and left end division. Large moulded opening to west gable end. Interior has collar-truss roof with butt purlins. An important early dated example of this type, built for Giles Earle, son of Sir Thomas Earle, who bought the manor at this date. The cowhouse forms part of an exceptionally complete and early farmstead group.
(WILTSHIRE FARM BUILDINGS 1500-1900, Wiltshire Buildings Record (ed. P.M. Slocombe), 1989, p63).

Listing NGR: ST9774990876

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534185

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)