Pinkney Farmhouse

KEEVIL - ST 95 NW 7/117 Pinkney Farmhouse GV II

Farmhouse. Circa 1600, C17, late C18 and early C19. Rubble stone, stone slate roof with half-hips, rendered stacks and coped verges. Two-storey, 2-window C17 front. Two planked doors and single-light casement within verandah. First floor has datestone inscribed WM / 1684 (initials of Mortimer family), two 2-light ovolo-mullioned casements. To right is C20 projecting wing in sympathetic style with reset ovolo-mullioned casements. To right is early C19 one- bay drawing room addition with 16-pane sashes in plain architraves to ground and first floors. Rear has three 2-light casements to ground and first floors, hipped attic dormer, single-storey addition to right with casements and brick stack and datestone inscribed MC / TL / 1785, reset from gable end. Interior has timber-framed partitions from an early C17 framed house, rebuilt 1684. Chamfered beams with jewel stops, open fireplace with cambered chamfered lintel in north end bay. One C17 moulded wainscot door under stairs. C19 drawing room with window shutters and classical fireplace. (VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965)

Listing NGR: ST9329758338