Pinhills Farmhouse

ST 97 SE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

2/32 Pinhills Farmhouse

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Farmhouse, mid C18, possibly on later C17 core, rubble stone with C19 Bridgwater tile eaves roof and barge boards. Two storeys and attic, L-plan, cross-gabled with ashlar stacks on gables and on rear wing south end. North front 3-window with gable each side, raised quoins and windows in raised architraves with block rusticated jambs, 2-light to first floor centre 3-light to ground and first floor each side. Gables are blank. Ashlar centrepiece to ground floor with door in raised block rusticated architrave with pediment over flanked by casements with cornice over. Six- panel door. West end wall has similar 3-light window to each floor and C19 gabled dormer. East end and rear wing have plain flush mullion 2-light windows and C19 dormers. One fielded panelled room to ground floor right. Pinhills was a manor held by the Blake family from the C13 to the C18, the great house, that stood within the moat adjacent to the present house, was destroyed by Royalists in 1644. The present farmhouse is said to have been where the first vaccination, normally credited to Jenner, was carried out by J. Ingenhousz (1730-99), distinguished scientist, then resident at Bowood House. (A.E.W. Marsh, A History of the Borough and Town of Calne, 1903, 184-7)

CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

For Nos 75-7 Black Dog Hill see London Road, Black Dog Hill. Golden Gates see Church Road, Derry Hill. Kennels Lodge see Devizes Road. Northend Cottage see Devizes Road, Sandy Lane. Pillars Lodge see Mile Elm (A 3102). Studley Lodge see Old Road, Derry Hill.

Listing NGR: ST9873070010