Description

ST 97 SE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

2/32 Pinhills Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse, mid C18, possibly on later C17 core, rubble stone with
C19 Bridgwater tile eaves roof and barge boards. Two storeys and
attic, L-plan, cross-gabled with ashlar stacks on gables and on
rear wing south end. North front 3-window with gable each side,
raised quoins and windows in raised architraves with block
rusticated jambs, 2-light to first floor centre 3-light to ground
and first floor each side. Gables are blank. Ashlar centrepiece
to ground floor with door in raised block rusticated architrave
with pediment over flanked by casements with cornice over. Six-
panel door. West end wall has similar 3-light window to each floor
and C19 gabled dormer. East end and rear wing have plain flush
mullion 2-light windows and C19 dormers. One fielded panelled room
to ground floor right. Pinhills was a manor held by the Blake
family from the C13 to the C18, the great house, that stood within
the moat adjacent to the present house, was destroyed by Royalists
in 1644. The present farmhouse is said to have been where the
first vaccination, normally credited to Jenner, was carried out by
J. Ingenhousz (1730-99), distinguished scientist, then resident at
Bowood House.
(A.E.W. Marsh, A History of the Borough and Town of Calne, 1903,
184-7)

CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

For Nos 75-7 Black Dog Hill see London Road, Black Dog Hill.
Golden Gates see Church Road, Derry Hill.
Kennels Lodge see Devizes Road.
Northend Cottage see Devizes Road, Sandy Lane.
Pillars Lodge see Mile Elm (A 3102).
Studley Lodge see Old Road, Derry Hill.

Listing NGR: ST9873070010

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552732

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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