Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East Of Junction With Andover Road is a Grade II listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 April 1993. Fair booth.
Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East Of Junction With Andover Road
- WRENN ID
- tattered-keystone-rook
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 April 1993
- Type
- Fair booth
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 34 NW PENTON GRAFTON WEYHILL ROAD Weyhill
4/10001 Fair booth approx. 500 yds south east of junction with Andover+Road
GV II Former fair booth. Early C19. Flint with brick dressings. Corrugated asbestos roof. Rectangular plan. Single storey. Boarded up entrance flanked by windows with horizontally set shutters, the lower leaves dropping down to form a counter, the upper forming a canopy. This booth is one of the surviving remnants of Weyhill Fair, one of the most important historic fairs in the country which is documented in 1225 and continued until 1959. William Cobbett visited the fair several times and made reference to it and the hop growers in Rural Rides. Thomas Hardy immortralised Weyhill Fair in The Mayor of Casterbridge. renaming it Weydon Priors. The booth is also an important survival of permanent fair booths which are a rare building type.
Listing NGR: SU3195047926
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