Faulston House

SU 02 NE BISHOPSTONE MILL LANE (north side)

5/53 Faulston House 23.3.60

GV II

Detached house. C17, rebuilt c1800. Dressed limestone front with some banded flint and stone to left return, 2-span tiled hipped roof with gable end brick stacks to front range and axial stack with C17 bricks to rear range. Parallel range plan. Two-storey, 3-window south front. Central 6-panelled door in reeded architrave with paterae and flat wooden hood on brackets, 12-pane sash either side in recessed stone architraves. Two plat bands across first floor; three 12-pane sashes in recessed architraves. Attached to right is C19 dressed stone lean-to extension with sash. Left return has blocked mullioned window and 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements with dripstones to left, rear range. Rear range has three 3-light recessed chamfered mullioned casements to ground and first floor to rear left, straight joint to centre with C19 porch with 6-panelled door and casements to right. Interior has entrance hall with open well stairs with stick balusters and wreathed handrail, doors with 2, 4 or 6 fielded panels in moulded architraves. Classical fireplace surrounds and one bolection moulded fireplace in morning room. Thick dressed limestone wall between kitchen and rest of house probably a former external wall, but original form of house not evident. This house on site of late medieval house with moated enclosure, referred to by John Aubrey, Natural History of Wiltshire, 1847.

Listing NGR: SU0726125649