Trusloe Manor

Trusloe Manor is a house located on Bray Street in Avebury, dating from the early 16th century, with mid-17th century and 1986 alterations. The building is constructed of sarsen rubble lined with chalkstone, featuring limestone ashlar dressings and porches, and has stone slate roofs throughout. Originally the manor of Cirencester Abbey, it was rebuilt around 1520 and has since been significantly reduced in size.

The house has four roof bays, with a cross passage in the main room and an unheated secondary room to the north. A single-storey porch and likely a north lean-to service room were added around 1658 by Thomas Trusloe. The rear porch, probably from the 19th century, and a large rear wing with a replica porch were under construction in 1986. The porch features Tuscan pilasters on attached pedestals with lozenge decoration, supporting a fragmented entablature and a ball finial. The rear porch is gabled and stone-tiled.

On either side of the porch are five-light mullioned and transomed hollow chamfered windows with label moulding. A part of a label mould from a former opening can be found within the porch. There is a four-light similar window on the left lean-to and a three-light window reset in the south gable, which was rebuilt in brick in the 18th century when the building was reduced. The plinth has a large moulding, and the door within the porch is a 17th-century boarded door with a moulded frame. The roof is hipped and sweeps down unbroken over the lean-to, which is an 18th-century reconstruction of a simpler lower lean-to.

Inside, the left bay has a wide shallow rear stack, likely a 17th-century addition. An early staircase in the northeast corner was replaced by a staircase from the rear of the cross passage, which has now been removed. There is an added stack in the north room. The roof trusses feature queen struts and collars, with double purlins and wind braces to the upper purlin. As of April 1986, the entire interior is undergoing repair and remodelling, with blockwork partitions replacing timber-framed partitions. Panelling that was formerly in the upper chamber is to be refixed in the main ground floor hall.