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TOWER HOUSE, TWATLEY FARM NEAR MALMSBURY
WILTSHIRE
PROGRAMME OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL
RECORDING
AUGUST 2004
on behalf of
MR & MRS WILLIS
CA REPORT: 04126
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TOWER HOUSE, TWATLEY FARM NEAR MALMESBURY
WILTSHIRE
PROGRAMME OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORDING
CA PROJECT: 1803 CA REPORT: 04126
Author: Kate Cullen
Approved:
Signed:
Mary Alexander
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Issue: 01 Date: 26 August 2004
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ............................................................................................... 2
Photographs......................................................................................................... 2
SUMMARY........................................................................................................................3
1. INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................. 4
2. METHODOLOGY................................................................................................. 4
3. DESIGNATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND PLANNING CONSTRAINTS . 5
4. BASELINE SURVEY............................................................................................ 6
Historic landscape and buildings ......................................................................... 7
5. BUILDING ANALYSIS BY RICHARD K MORRISS ............................................. 8
The Buildings (See Fig. 2 for building locations).................................................. 8
Building A: The Western, or Water Tower, Range............................................... 9
Building B: The North Range ............................................................................... 13
Building C: The East Range................................................................................. 16
6. PROJECT TEAM ................................................................................................. 17
7. REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 18
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Fig. 1 Site location plan
Fig. 2 Location plan showing buildings
Fig. 3 1840 Tithe Map
Fig. 4 1921 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey Map (1:2500)
Fig. 5 1938 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey Map (revised) (1” to 1 mile)
Photographs
Fig. 6 Building A1: east facing exterior elevation
Fig. 7 Building A2: east facing exterior elevation
Fig. 8 Buildings A2/A3: west facing interior elevation
Fig. 9 Building A3: west facing exterior elevation
Fig. 10 Building B: The Northern Range: north facing exterior elevation
Fig. 11 Building B1: southern facing exterior elevation
Fig. 12 Building B1: west facing interior elevation
Fig. 13 Building B1: forge and furnace
Fig. 14 Building B2: eastern section; south facing exterior elevation
Fig. 15 Building B2: west facing interior elevation
Fig. 16 Building C: northern section; west facing exterior elevation
Fig. 17 Building C: southern section; west facing exterior elevation
Fig. 18 Building C: north facing interior elevation
Fig. 19 Building A looking towards northern range
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SUMMARY
Site Name: Tower House, Twatley Farm
Location: Near Malmesbury, Wiltshire
NGR: ST 8986 8718
Type: Programme of Archaeological Recording
Site Code: THT 04
In July 2004, Cotswold Archaeology was commissioned by Mr and Mrs D Willis to carry out a
Programme of Archaeological Recording at Tower House, Twatley Farm, near Malmesbury,
Wiltshire.
Twatley Manor Farm buildings are Grade II Listed, and comprise two separate ranges built
c.1930, probably by architect Septimus Warwick for Herbert Choplin Cox.
The water tower formed part of the southern range (now Tower House) along with stables,
blacksmith’s shop, pump-house, mess room, offices and garden sheds. The northern range
was built around a courtyard with open-fronted vehicle sheds, a vet’s room, fire station,
laundry house and grooms’ lodges: in short, a fully self-sufficient estate with its own water
and power supply.
Most of the buildings within the farmstead were constructed with an inner core of brickwork
and an outer face of coursed limestone rubble with dressed but irregular limestone quoins.
The roofs, despite their various shapes and forms, are all covered with locally derived
tilestones laid to graded courses.
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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 In July 2004, Cotswold Archaeology (CA) was commissioned by Mr and Mrs D Willis
to carry out a Programme of Archaeological Recording at Tower House, Twatley
Farm, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
1.2 Planning permission for the conversion of the southern range of courtyard buildings at
Twatley Farm (known as Tower House) was granted by North Wiltshire District
Council, conditional on a programme of archaeological work in accordance with a brief
(June 2004) issued by Fiona Cairns archaeological advisor to North Wiltshire District
Council.
1.3 The Tower House building is defined on Figs 1-2 (centred on NGR ST 8986 8718).
This report addresses the standing building (the built heritage), and the primary
objectives of this report may be summarised as;
to gather information from cartographic and documentary sources on the
recorded historic landuse of the building;
to carry out a photographic survey of all exterior and interior elevations;
to describe the fabric and form of the building
2. METHODOLOGY
2.1 The assessment has been produced in accordance with the Wiltshire County
Council Archaeological Service Standards for Archaeological Assessment and Field
Evaluation in Wiltshire (WCCAS 2003), and has also been guided by the Standard
and Guidance for Desk-Based Assessment issued by the Institute of Field
Archaeologists (IFA 1999). The baseline survey involved consultation of readily
available archaeological and historical information from documentary and
cartographic sources. The major repositories of information consulted comprised:
Wiltshire Buildings Record
Listed buildings information
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Published and unpublished documentary sources
Wiltshire Records Office
Historic maps and documents
National Monuments Record (Swindon) (NMR)
Vertical and oblique aerial photographic records
Published and unpublished documentary sources
NMR Buildings Index
Wiltshire Local Studies Library
Local publications and archive material
Site Survey
A site visit was made on 15 July 2004 in order to examine and photograph the
building.
2.2 All photographs were duplicated in monochrome print (processed to archive
standard) and reversal (slide) film, as well as digitally. All photographs featured an
appropriately-sized metric scale, which was logged in conjunction with a detailed
description and location of each subject.
2.3 Copies of the photographic survey will be deposited with the Built Environment
department of North Wiltshire District Council, and with the County Archaeologist at
his discretion for incorporation within the Sites and Monuments Record (SMR).
3. DESIGNATED ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND PLANNING CONSTRAINTS
3.1 The building lies within Policy Area RH12 of the Local Plan, ‘Types of Residential
Development’. Regarding residential conversions, Policy RH12 states that ‘in the
countryside, the conversion of buildings to residential use will be permitted where
the form, bulk and general design of the existing building are in keeping with its
surroundings’.
3.2 The Tower House building is Grade II Listed, and includes the rest of the Twatley
Manor Farm buildings comprising two separate ranges. Planning policy regarding
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listed buildings is outlined in Chapter 8 of the Local Plan and set out in Policies
RB10-11, reproduced below.
POLICY RB10 LISTED BUILDINGS
3.3 Development within or around the cartilage of a listed building will only be permitted
where it preserves its character or setting.
POLICY RB11 DEMOLITION AND ALTERATIONS INVOLVING LISTED
BUILDINGS
3.4 Permission for development involving demolition or alterations to a listed building will
only be granted, where otherwise acceptable, and where the proposal would
preserve the building, any features it possesses of special architectural or historic
interest, and its setting. In rare instances, permission for other works involving
demolition or alterations to a listed building may, and will only, be granted if justified
on balance by all material considerations. Permission for development involving the
demolition of any Grade I or II* building will be wholly exceptional and will require the
strongest justification.
4. BASELINE SURVEY
Introduction
4.1 The courtyard buildings have until recently been used for a range of agricultural
purposes. The site occupies land overlooking the north bank of the River Avon
between Easton Grey and Malmesbury, to the east of Whatley Manor, and lies at
approximately 98m AOD. The solid geology across the Site comprises Kellaways
Clay (a silty clay with sand) of the Upper Jurassic Period (BGS 1970).
Previous work
4.2 In December 2000 to January 2001, Queenpost Building Histories (Cormier 2000-
2001) undertook a programme of building investigation and recording to accompany
listed building consent for alterations to Whatley Manor (Figs 1-2). The Manor House
itself, and what is now Twatley Farm were originally part of the same estate, and as
such this report also incorporated much of the history of Twatley Farm. A copy of
this unpublished typescript report is held in the Wiltshire Buildings Records (ref
B1061).
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Grade II Listing (ref 1359-0/3/10007)
4.3 Twatley Manor Farm buildings are Grade II Listed, and comprise two separate
ranges. These ranges were used as farm buildings until recently. They were built
c.1930, probably by architect Septimus Warwick for Herbert Choplin Cox.
4.4 The water tower formed part of the southern range (now Tower House) along with
stables, blacksmith’s shop, pump-house, mess room, offices and garden sheds. The
northern range (Fig. 19) was built around a courtyard with open-fronted vehicle
sheds, a vet’s room, fire station, laundry house and grooms’ lodges (as recorded in
the listing information in 1997).
Historic landscape and buildings
The 19th Century
4.5 The standing core of Twatley farmhouse (now Grade II Listed as Whatley Manor),
originated in the 18th century, but first appears on the Malmesbury Tithe map of
1840 (Fig. 3). The land was in the parish of Brokenborough, part of the Bremilham
Manor estate. The map shows an earlier phase of the building now known as
Whatley (formerly Twatley) Manor, but no buildings in the area now occupied by
Tower House. The Tithe Apportionment Register describes the structures as ‘house,
garden, buildings, and orchards’, and the land occupied now by Tower House as
pasture, both owned by the Earl of Suffolk and occupied by Henry Morris. The
Ordnance Survey maps from 1886 to 1900 further indicate growth and alterations to
Twatley Farm, but no development of the land to the east.
The 20th century
4.6 By 1921 the 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map (Fig. 4) indicates a ‘Pump House’
and well in the vicinity of the current farm buildings, and by the 1938 revised edition
a number of buildings, presumably barns are shown (Fig. 5). These, however, do not
conform to the plan of Tower House, and must date to shortly before the erection of
the buildings standing today. It is therefore likely that the Tower House buildings
were constructed c.1930 onwards. A number of drawings dating to this period are
held in the Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A.) archive (ref RAN/74/I/13),
and are by the architect Septimus Warwick detailing ‘alterations to Twatley Farm’
(Cormier 2000-2001).
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4.7 Twatley Farm was bought by Herbert Choplin Cox in c.1925 and it is during his
ownership the construction of the courtyard ranges incorporating Tower House
occurred. He died in 1945 and his executors sold the estate (which included both the
Manor House, and the farm), to H.I. Coriat, who then sold to R.J. Rennie who
subsequently divided the property c.1961 forming Twatley Manor and Twatley Farm
(VCH 1994). The manor is now Whatley Manor Hotel, and the farm belongs to Mr
and Mrs D Willis.
5. BUILDING ANALYSIS by Richard K Morriss
The Buildings (See Fig. 2 for building locations)
5.1 The buildings in this study form the southern of a series of courtyards primarily given
over to stabling and, given their date, a surprisingly late example of their type on
such a scale.
5.2 They appear to have been built in the early 1930’s and were designed by the
architect Septimus Warwick. Warwick (1881-1953) set up in practise with Herbert
Austen Hall in 1905 and in the same year they won the competition to design
Lambeth Town Hall in London.1
5.3 In the following year they were successful in designing another town hall in the
capital, at Holborn, and in 1909 won a competition to design the new county council
offices for Berkshire in Reading, described by Pevsner as ‘Free Palladian and quite
lively’.2
5.4 The partnership of Hall & Warwick was dissolved in 1913 after which Warwick
moved to Canada and stayed there for seven years. On his return, he designed
several more office buildings between the World Wars in London, as well as some
mansion flats in fashionable areas such as Bayswater.
5.5 Details of the rest of his domestic work are sketchy, mainly because he was not
considered to be one of the significant British architects of the 20th century.
1 Stuart Gray, A, 1985, Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary, 371 2 Stuart Gray, op. cit., 371; Pevsner, N, 1988, Buildings of England: Berkshire, 202
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However, it does seem unlikely that he designed many other agricultural buildings
such as those at Twatley.
Building A: The Western, or Water Tower, Range
5.6 The Western Range comprises, from south to north, a former garage or coach
house; the water tower; and the former engine room of the electricity plant for the
house.
5.7 Despite the apparently disparate nature of these components, the whole range was
evidently of one build. Like most of the other buildings within the farmstead, it is
constructed with an inner core of brickwork and an outer face of coursed limestone
rubble with dressed but irregular limestone quoins. The roofs, despite their various
shapes and forms, are all covered with locally derived tilestones laid to graded
courses.
Building A1: The Garage
Description
5.8 The former garage or coach house is at the southern end of the Western Range of
buildings, attached to the water tower immediately to the north of it and clearly
contemporary with the rest (Fig. 6).
The Exterior
5.9 It is a tall single-storey structure under a plain-gabled tilestoned roof, built of a brick
inner skin with a facing of coursed limestone rubble with dressed limestone quoins.
On the east side is a broad double doorway opening with dressed limestone jambs
and a rather over-stretched flat-arch of stone voussoirs hiding the true lintel over
spanning the opening. On the west side there is a single two-light window with a
simple stone surround with projecting sill and there is a similar two-light window in
the south gable end.
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The Interior
5.10 The interior is a single open space with no obvious features, fixtures or fittings of
note or historical significance.
Discussion
5.11 This was evidently designed for the storage of a vehicle. It may simply have been a
garage but seems to have been built rather late for a coach house.
Building A2: The Water Tower
Description
5.12 The tower is a tall structure, clearly contemporary with the buildings to the north and
south of it and with no evident breaks in construction in between (Fig. 7). Its west
and east side walls are in line with the respective west and east walls of those
attached ranges, and the dressed stone quoins only begin above the level of the
wall-plates of those ranges.
The Exterior
5.13 Architecturally it is a three-storey structure with gabled attic, but the third floor is
considerably taller than the two others below it. At each of those lower floor levels
there are casement windows in the west and east sides.
5.14 On the east side these are of three-lights with dressed stone jambs, projecting sill,
and a rather odd flat arch of worked stone. The glazing is of cast-iron rectangular
panes, though the outer lights of the first-floor window are boarded up.
5.15 On the west side the windows are smaller and of just two lights, though they have a
more traditional simply moulded unitary stone surround, flush to the external wall
face apart from a projecting cornice on the top of the lintel.
5.16 High up in the third floor there are identical narrow single light windows on all four
elevations with moulded stone surrounds, a projecting sill and a depressed four-
centred head; these windows are not and presumably were never glazed; instead,
they are infilled with slatted timber louvres.
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5.17 Each elevation is topped by a coped gable, and in each of these there are round owl
holes with simple worked stone surrounds; these are slightly misleading as they
have rectangular reveals on the inside.
5.18 At the four corners there are large box hopper heads at the base of the gable
slopes, though not all of the down pipes from them have survived. There is a simple
remnant of a weathervane at the centre of the roof where the ridges of the four
cross-gabled roof structures meet.
The Roof
5.19 The timber roof structure is fairly simple; the feet of the rafters are embedded into a
set-back in the internal brickwork and are machine sawn and of fairly thin scantling.
Each of the cross-dormered sections has a single tier of purlins and a ridgeboard
and the roof is covered in tilestones with a ceramic ridge.
The Interior
5.20 The lower rooms are tiled and plastered and stripped of any of the main fixtures and
fittings they may have had. The ground-floor section, lit by windows in the side
walls, is open to the adjacent section of the long northern part of the range, Building
A3 (Fig. 8).
5.21 At first-floor level the tall and full-width room is lit by windows in the west and east
walls and spanned by a pair of boxed axial ceiling beams. The room is linked by a
central doorway to the former battery room to the north. A tall but thin vertical iron
ladder against the western side of the north wall provides access to the tank room
and roof space above.
Discussion
5.22 The lower rooms of the tower were separate from its primary function – as the
location of the main water tank supplying the estate. The necessary water pressure
was obtained by the sheer height of the tower, built at a time when mains water was
presumably not a viable alternative in such a rural area and on a virtually self-
sufficient estate.
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Building A3: The Power Plant
Description
5.23 The Power Plant forms the northern section of the Western Range northwards from
the Water Tower to a gable end. It is evidently contemporary with the tower to the
south and the buildings to the east, although it projects slightly further to the north
than the latter range.
The Exterior
5.24 This is a two-storey range with a roof ridge higher than that of the garage (Building
A1) on the opposite side of the tower. On its east side the northern section is
obscured by the adjacent Northern Range (Building B1) – which also has a slightly
lower wall height and roof ridge (Fig. 9).
5.25 The section facing the courtyard has a single doorway with plain worked stone
surround and a dormer gable lighting the first-floor with a two-light window and
hipped cross-gabled roof.
5.26 The longer western elevation has a doorway to the southern end and a pair of two-
light ground-floor windows with plain stone surrounds. Above these is a wide three-
light dormer lighting the upper floor with similar details to the one on the opposite
side.
5.27 In the plain-gabled northern end there is a first-floor doorway towards the east side
reached up an external flight of steps with simple iron handrail. This is built of stone
and there is an arched recess at ground-floor level. The gable end is topped by a
stone chimney at the ridge.
The Roof
5.28 The plain gabled roof is of three bays, with two simple trusses supporting a single
tier of purlins. The roof slopes are covered in tilestones.
The Interior
5.29 Apart from a narrow section partitioned off from the rest at the northern end of the
ground floor, both floor levels within this building are open throughout as long full-
width single spaces – barring a narrow section at the north end of the ground-floor
reached through a four-panelled door.
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5.30 The tiled ground floor section is continued into the ground-floor of the Water Tower
(Building A2) but has no communication with any other range (Fig. 9). It contains
brick and concrete machine bases and isolated electrical and other fittings on the
walls, but all of the generating machinery has been removed.
5.31 Access to the first-floor is by way of the external staircase at the northern end; it is
linked by way of a doorway to the first-floor level of the tower section as well. Like
the ground-floor, most of the fixtures and fittings have been removed.
Discussion
5.32 This part of the complex was the main power generating station for the estate, with
the generating plant in the engine room on the ground floor and the batteries and
accumulators taking and storing the power that they produced on the floor above.
The net result would have been a self-sufficient supply of electricity for the estate.
Building B: The North Range
5.33 The North Range (Fig. 10) of the southern courtyard is made up of two parts, though
these are of one build. This can be seen in the pattern of quoins on the taller
western section, which only begin above the wall-plate level of the lower eastern
section – and in the fact that below that level, the coursing runs through across the
junction between the two. That build is contemporary with the rest of the complex
and is constructed of the same brick inner skin and rubblestone outer facing.
Building B1: The Forge and Mess Room Section
Description
5.34 The western one and half storey section of this range once housed the forge on the
ground floor and the mess hall on the storey above. It is taller than the eastern half
of the range, but slightly shorter than the northern section of the Western Range
(Building A) against which it was built.
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The Exterior
5.35 The elevation to the southern courtyard is fairly simple, with an informal vernacular
symmetry (Fig. 11). There are three and two-light plainly stone-framed casement
windows at ground-floor level and a three light casement lighting the first floor level,
its upper section accommodated by a cross-gabled and coped dormer.
5.36 The north elevation is asymmetric. There are two two-light simply stone-framed
casements on the ground floor with a stone-framed double doorway in between.
Towards the eastern end is a loft access doorway, the head of which is within a
stone coped gable dormer; it is reached by a flight of stone external steps and a
short landing, with iron handrail. At the opposite end of the elevation at first-floor
level is a two-light casement, its top section within a hip-roofed dormer.
5.37 The plain gabled roof is tile stoned and at the eastern end there is a ridge chimney;
this section of the gable is obviously taller than the lower section of the range to the
east (Building A2). The roof truss has principal rafters linked by a collar, from which
a king-post rises to the ridge; there are a single tier of purlins.
The Interior
5.38 Despite the glazing pattern, the ground-floor of this portion of the range is taken up
by one long and well-lit single room with door access in the north wall (Fig. 12). In
the middle of the east end wall, the cast-iron furnace and forge, with its canopy,
survived at the time of the survey (Fig. 13). A maker plaque reads ‘Sturtevant
Engineering CO. LTD. London’. Access to the upper floor was by an external stair, and
that was also one single chamber open to the roof.
Discussion
5.39 The ground-floor space was originally the forge. It was well-lit by two windows in
each side wall and accessed through a large double-doorway in the north wall
presumably designed to allow horses to enter the space and larger pieces of
equipment. There was originally no direct access to the first-floor, which was
accessed, instead, by an external staircase on the north side. This first-floor space
was once the mess room, open to the roof and well lit by windows in each side wall.
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Building B2: The Eastern Section
Description
5.40 The eastern section is a fairly tall but single storey block under a plain-gabled roof,
lower than the western section (Building B1) but slightly taller than the East Range
(Building C).
The Exterior
5.41 The eastern end of the range’s courtyard, or southern, elevation is butted against by
the East Range. In it there is a stone-framed double doorway and, to the west, a
three-light stone-framed casement window (Fig. 14).
5.42 Similarly, on the northern elevation, the eastern part is obscured by another range –
the open-fronted shelter shed. In the remainder of the elevations there is a doorway
flanked by two single-light windows, the western one being within an odd section of
walling under a lean-to rising to the wall-plate of the western portion. Further east is
a larger three-light stone-framed casement.
5.43 The east gable end is plain, and topped by a primary chimney on top of the inwardly
projecting stack. The roof is supported by a single tier of boxed purlins and, in the
longer eastern section, is a central truss – consisting of principals linked by a collar
and with a king-post to the ridge.
The Interior
5.44 The interior was originally made up of two separate full-width rooms open to the roof
with no connection in the cross-wall between them. The western portion had a
double doorway flanked by two small windows in the north wall, with a three-light
window opposite.
5.45 The longer eastern portion had a grander appearance, open to a two-bay section of
the roof and with a projecting stack and fireplace in the eastern gable end (Fig. 15).
It was lit by a window in the north wall and accessed by a double doorway to the
courtyard in the south wall – both openings towards its western end. There were
originally no other openings.
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Discussion
5.46 Clearly these two rooms were not connected and as they were accessed from
different parts of the stable yard they had different functions – but the double
doorways indicate that they must have been stable or yard related rather than
domestic – even though the eastern room had a fireplace.
Building C: The East Range
Description
5.47 The eastern range of the southern courtyard is a single-storey block lower than any
of the others with a short cross-wing towards the southern end projecting into the
courtyard. It is faced with the standard coursed rubble with dressed quoins and
plain dressed surrounds to the openings, and has the same graded tile-stoned roof.
The Exterior
5.48 On the courtyard, or west, elevation, there is a small doorway and loop window at
the northern end to the northern room. To the south there is a large double doorway
to the next room and to the south of that, a two light and three light window to either
side of the projecting wing (Fig. 16).
5.49 On the east elevation there are two two-light windows flanking a three-light window.
In the plain-gabled southern end of the range a pair of single light windows flank the
internal stack, which is topped by a projecting ridge chimney.
5.50 The projecting south-western wing has a two-light window in the gable end, a single
light window in the southern return and a doorway opposite in the northern return. It
has a plain gabled roof (Fig. 17).
The Interior
5.51 The interior of the main section is divided up into four unequal but full-width spaces,
and there was an additional room occupying the wing. The northernmost room is
the smallest, a well-lit space accessed from a doorway in the courtyard side but with
no original access to any other part of the complex. The room to the south has a
double-doorway off the courtyard, opposite a large three-light window in the east
wall.
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5.52 The two southern rooms are linked by a central doorway in the cross-wall between
them. The smaller northern section is lit by windows in the side walls. The longer
southern room is accessed through the wing, which is effectively its porch. The
room was heated, having a fireplace in the south gable end (Fig. 18).
Discussion
5.53 The layout of the two southern rooms and the porch-cum-wing on the west side
could suggest a domestic purpose, perhaps a bothy or accommodation for one of
the stable-yard workers. The narrow northernmost room may have been a WC,
whilst the room to its south, with double doors, could have been a loose box or
perhaps a tack room.
6. PROJECT TEAM
The project was researched and the report produced by Kate Cullen, with building analysis
by Richard K Morriss. The report was illustrated by Lorna Gray. The project was managed
by Mary Alexander.
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7. REFERENCES
BGS (British Geological Survey) 1970 Sheet 251 Malmesbury, 1 inch to 1 mile
IFA (Institute of Field Archaeologists) 1999 Standards and Guidance for Desk-Based
Assessments
NWDC (North Wiltshire District Council) June 2004 Brief for the guidance of historic
buildings/archaeological consultants in the recording of historic buildings prior to
redevelopment or alteration
Victoria County History of Wiltshire 1994 Malmesbury Hundred Vol XIV
WCCAS 2003 Standards for Archaeological Assessment and Field Evaluation
Wiltshire Buildings Record
Ref B1061:
Cormier, J. M. unpublished Whatley Manor, Easton Grey, Malmesbury, Wiltshire: Report on
Building Investigation and Recording December 2000-January 2001.
Wiltshire Record Office (WRO)
Ref 1024/1 Particulars of the Manors of Brokenborough and Brinkworth in the County of
Wiltshire belonging to the Right Honourable Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1785
Ref 2443/1 Conveyances, Leases, Particulars, Conditions and Agreements of Sale,
regarding Twatley House and Farm
Cartographic sources
1840 Tithe Map for Malmesbury (WRO)
1886 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map (1:2500) Sheet 8/13
1889 1st Edition Ordnance Survey map (1” to 1 mile) Sheet 8/13
1900 2nd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1:2500) Sheet 8/13
1921 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map (1:2500) Sheet 8/13
1938 3rd Edition Ordnance Survey map (revised) (1’’ to 1 mile) Sheet 8/13
2001 Ordnance Survey Superplan (1:2500; centred on Site)
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