Cocklebury Farmhouse

CHIPPENHAM

ST97SW COCKLEBURY LANE 930-1/1/19 Cocklebury Farmhouse 20/10/75

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Farmhouse, now sheltered housing, refurbished c1990. C17 with later additions. Squared limestone rubble, freestone quoins, plinth band to north facade and some architraves, C20 pantile roof hipped to the north-east, ashlar ridge stack to right of corner and gable ends. The C17 block was 3-unit plan, the C19 rear left wing now makes it L-shaped plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics; 4-window range to the north C19 entrance facade, 3-window range to the east facade facing the road. Small C20 gabled dormers, 2 to the east side, one to the north side. Timber lintels and 2-pane casement windows to the right-hand ranges of the C17 block; 2-light to the 1st-floor centre, 3-light to the right; hoodmoulds to a 4-light C20 window to the ground-floor right and a hollow-moulded stone-mullioned 2-light window to the ground-floor centre. C20 top-hung simulated 6/6-pane sash windows to the left are in plain freestone architraves. The north facade has mostly similar windows to the 1st-floor and flanking the right-of-centre C20 gabled porch. 2-light casement windows to the ground-floor left and inside-left of the 1st floor which has a plain stone mullion. The rear was rebuilt c1990. INTERIOR: chamfered crossbeams to both floors of the C17 block and diagonal dragon beams to the corners. On the ground floor, below the ridge stack, is an open fire with a stone Tudor-arched lintel. HISTORY: the farmhouse was on the old waggon road from Bath to London. (Chamberlain, Joseph A: Chippenham: Chippenham: 1976-: 8).

Listing NGR: ST9280173922