Apshill House

Apshill House is a farmhouse that has been converted into a detached house. It dates from the late 14th century and has undergone alterations around 1600, 1700, and in the 20th century. The building is constructed of rubble stone, and it may have originally been timber framed. It features a tiled roof with stone and brick stacks. The structure is L-shaped and consists of a 3-bay hall house with a 2-bay open hall. It is single-storey with an attic and has three windows.

The front has a 20th-century door and a steel casement window to the left, along with a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a dripstone and a 3-light steel casement to the right. There is a gabled 20th-century dormer to the left. The right side has steel casements, while the rear features a 20th-century door to the right, a 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casement with a dripstone, and a steel casement in a blocked doorway to the left. The full gabled attic dormer has a 3-light mullioned casement and a coped verge.

To the rear right is a two-storey wing from around 1700, which has 2-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements and a blocked doorway. The rear of this wing includes 3-light and 2-light mullioned casements, some of which have leaded lights.

Inside, the house retains a fine deep arch-braced collar truss from the former open hall, featuring particularly good chamfered ogee cusping. The principals and collar of the truss are hollow-chamfered, and the two bays on either side have smoke-blackened timbers. The north solar bay is separated by a former closed truss. A floor and stone stack were inserted in the late 16th century, along with a deep chamfered ceiling beam and exposed joists. There is an open fireplace with chamfered stone jambs and a chamfered lintel with curved corners. The rear wing has chamfered beams with run-out stops and a bolection-moulded stone fireplace from the ground floor that was reset in the 19th century south bay during the 1950s. Apshill House is an unusual survival of a hall house, likely belonging to an important freeholder and also associated with the property of the Abbess of Shaftesbury, as noted by R. Colt Hoare in his 1829 work, Modern History of Wiltshire.