Old Railway Farmhouse The Siding

Old Railway Farmhouse and The Siding is a pair of cottages built in the late 18th century to early 19th century. The front is made of ashlar stone, while the sides and rear are dressed stone, topped with a Welsh slate roof and ashlar stacks. The building has two storeys and features four windows. There are two 20th-century doors with flat stone hoods supported by brackets, and to the left of each door is a 16-pane sash window in a plain case. On the first floor, there are four 16-pane sashes in plain cases, along with a plat band. The roof has deep eaves. The sides of the building do not have windows, and the rear includes a projecting wing with two windows that have sashes; there is also a 20th-century extension on the rear left. Inside, the cottage features 19th-century plank panelling and a large fireplace with a timber lintel. This building is said to have been a public house located beside the dismantled Devizes branch of the Great Western Railway and is situated on the east bank of the disused Wilts and Berkshire Canal, dating from 1796 to 1810.