Milton End And Marivale

Milton End and Marivale are a pair of attached cottages located on Priory Lane in Lyneham. They date from the late 17th century or early 18th century and incorporate parts of an earlier building, with later additions and alterations. The cottages are constructed from roughly coursed limestone rubble with quoins and have a slate roof. They are two storeys tall with an attic and feature a three-window front. The 18th-century two-light casements are positioned directly below the eaves, while the ground floor has 19th-century three-light casements, both with wooden lintels.

The central entrance has a segmental relieving arch over a wooden lintel, with a 19th-century boarded door set to the left of the doorway, accompanied by a vertical two-light glazed panel on the right. There is a small window with a wooden lintel immediately to the right of the entrance. A gabled dormer on the right side of the roof slope features a two-light leaded casement. The cottages have integral end stacks, with the left stack having a dripstone and a purple engineering brick top, while the right stack was rebuilt around 1980. The right gable end includes a three-light metal-framed leaded casement on the ground floor and a two-light casement above, both with wooden lintels.

Marivale, which is positioned at right angles to the rear of Milton End, faces the street and is likely from the late 18th century, having been altered in the mid-20th century. It is built from rubblestone and has a stone slate roof. The windows are 20th-century leaded latticed casements, including those in the raking half dormers, and there is a 20th-century door.

Inside Milton End, which was the only part inspected, there is a central cross-passage leading to a staircase housed in an extension formed at the angle with Marivale. A plain cross beam with sawn-off tenons and mortices is present, which was formerly aligned with a wooden doorway that had an arch-braced cambered head dating to around 1600. This doorway has been removed and is currently stored in a garden shed. The ground floor features a deep-chamfered spine beam, boxed in the left room with stopped chamfers. A semi-winder staircase leads from the first floor to the attic, which has a collar truss roof in four bays, along with two vertical stud partitions with rendered infill and double purlins. The 20th-century lean-to additions to the rear of Marivale are not of special architectural interest.