Chilton Fold

CHERITON FITZPAINE CHILTON LANE, Chilton SS 80 SE 10/34 Chilton Fold - - II

House, formerly farmhouse with adjoining store and well-house. Early C16 with later C16 and C17 improvements and C19 additions; modernised and extended in mid C20. Plastered cob on rubble footings; rubble and brick stacks; thatched roof. A much- altered 3-room-and-through-passage plan house facing east with the inner room at the northern (right hand) side. C17 axial stack at lower end of service room (the former gable end) and apparently C20 axial stack at upper end of hall. C17 dairy block at right angles to rear of hall and C19 store and well-house to end of service room. C20 extension to inner room. 2 storeys. 3-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars to main house, the thatch eaves rising slightly over those on first floor. C20 French windows to left are thought to represent original passage door. Roof half hipped to right and gable-ended to left. On left end single storey store room has C20 door and window; it was apparently open-fronted originally. At left end and set forward from the store the well house of largely exposed rubble has C20 casement window with glazing bars in front and end walls. Its roof, half-hipped each end, rises above that of adjoining store. Interior: The original roof, carried on side-pegged jointed cruck trusses, survives over the hall, passage and part of the service end. All is sooted indicating an original open house divided by low partitions and heated by an open hearth fire. One early-mid C16 screen survives but has been reset along the side wall of the C19 store; it is an oak plank-and-muntin screen including a flat-arched doorway, possibly from lower side of the passage. On upper side of passage only headbeam of a plank- and-muntin screen survives. Service room floored in late C16 with chamfered crossbeam with step stops and hall floored in early C17 with a crossbeam treated with a rebated ogee mould. Service room has late C17 volcanic ashlar fireplace with chamfered and runout-stopped oak lintel, rear bread oven and alcove to left. The end truss of the roof was put in about the same time, an elm A-frame with pegged lap- jointed collar, the same as the dairy roof. The dairy has a 2-light oak window frame with chamfered mullion and inner room chamber has an C18 2-light casement with rectangular leaded glass. The hall fireplace appears to be a C20 insertion into internal cob crosswall. The well-house is a rare survival.

Listing NGR: SS8637404137