Description

SX 49 NW
4/68

HALWILL
FOXHOLE
Farmbuilding about 20m west of Foxhole Farmhouse

GV
II

Farmbuilding, the north end formerly used as a detached bake-house and large ash-
house to Foxhole Farm (qv). Probably C18 with C19 modifications. Stone rubble and
cob with a corrugated iron roof gabled at ends. The north end of the building
consists of what was probably a large ash-house with a corbelled roof, the ash
supplied by 2 ovens apparently sharing the same chimney. One of the ovens is lined
with brick and may be an addition or modification of the C19. In the circa early C20
the stack was dismantled when the building was adapted as a cartshed. Single storey.
2 large rough openings on the east side are probably early C20, a doorway on the
north gable end leads into the ash-house.
Interior A stone rubble wall across the short length of the building divides the
ash- and bake-house from the rest of the building. A blocked opening with a timber
lintel in the wall gave access to the ash-house, a wider lower opening under a timber
lintel in the wall leads to the bake ovens. The 2 bake ovens are on a raised stone
rubble base, 1 has a triangular headed freestone opening and a neatly corbelled stone
internal structure with a course of granite at the base, the second oven is brick-
lined. A doorway with a timber lintel leads directly from the bake-house into the
large ash-house which has a neatly corbelled conical stone roof with a small circular
hole at the apex. Ashes from the bake-house were probably transferred directly into
the ash-house for storage before being taken to the fields through the door in the
north gable end of the building. A very unusual survival of a combination building
of bake- and ash-house, the internal construction of the ash-house is particularly
fine.

Listing NGR: SX4173696981

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26603685

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey