downtonbuildings

When the A338 was being improved in 1981 a Saxon cemetery containing 43 graves was found near Charlton-All- Saints. It is believed that a battle between the Jutes and Ambrosius was fought nearby.

EAST SIDE (from the South)

Charlton Manor Farmhouse

Formerly known as Charlton Farmhouse.

A grade II listed building - formerly listed as Charlton Farmhouse.

Listing description: Farmhouse. c1830. Red and yellow Flemish bond brick, Welsh slate hipped roof, brick stacks. Square plan. 2-storey, 5- window symmetrical front. Central segmental porch on Tuscan columns with double doors with 6 reeded panels and fanlight, either side are two 12-pane sashes. 2-brick plat band to first floor, five 12-pane sashes; all windows with flat arches. Plain limestone blocking course, two dormers with 2-light casements. Right return has three blocked windows and 2-brick plat band to first floor. Left return and garden front has C20 French windows and two 12-pane sashes to ground floor, 2-brick plat band to first floor; three sashes and one blind window. Rear has 12-pane and 20- pane sashes with two dormers with 2- light casements, attached is mid-C19 single-storey kitchen extension with sashes and French windows. Interior has doors with 6 beaded panels in fluted architraves with paterae, reeded plaster ceiling cornices, marble fireplace with pilasters in south-east room, internal shutters to windows. Built following an Enclosure Act of 1807.

The following other buildings at Charlton Manor Farm are also grade II listed buildings in their own right:

Barn to south west of Charlton Manor Farmhouse (formerly listed as part of out-buildings at Charlton Farm)
Listing description: Large Barn. Late C18. Weatherboarding on timber- framing, with Flemish bond brick plinth, half-hipped tiled roof. 8 bays, aisled. Two double planked doors on south side, two sliding doors on north side, now within C20 added shelter shed, double doors inserted in west gable. 8-bay interior has tie- beam roof trusses with curved bracing to aisle posts, raking struts to collar, clasped butt purlins with straight wind-bracing and straight bracing to wall plat from aisle posts. Wall has V-struts to each bay.

Granary to east of barn at Charlton Manor Farm
Listing description: Granary. Early C19. Weatherboarding on timber-frame, on staddlestones, half-hipped tiled roof. Planked door on, east side. Boarded interior with loft, 3-bay roof with clasped purlins.

Former occupiers: Hubert Read (1935- 1968).

WEST SIDE (from the South)

The Stag Inn

Former occupiers: W H Badcock (1930s); Mrs E M Badcock (1950s).

Stag Cottage

4 Downton Road

Former occupiers: Mr Valance (1930s- 1950s).

6 Downton Road

Former occupiers: James Thomas (1930s- 1950s).

8 Downton Road

A grade II listed building - listed as a pair with Old Forge Cottage.

Listing description: Pair of attached cottages. Early C18. Flemish bond brick, tiled roof, brick stacks. 2- storey, 4-window. No. 8 to right has planked door in chamfered wooden case with two 2-light cast-iron casements to right, Old Forge Cottage to left has 3-light and 2-light cast-iron casements with C20 casement inserted in blocked doorway. First floor has four 2-light cast-iron casements. Left return has C19 outshut with front door to Old Forge Cottage, plain bargeboards. Rear has C20 gabled outshuts. Interior not inspected.

Former occupiers: Frederick Sheppard (1930s-1950s); Stanley Sheppard (1960s).

Old Forge Cottage

A grade II listed building - listed as a pair with 8 Downton Road. See 8 Downton Road for listing description.

Former occupiers: Mr Grace (1930s- 1950s).

- Here is the junction with Church Lane -

Old Keepers Cottage

Croft House

A grade II listed building - listed as a pair with Charlton Grange.

Listing description: Cottage with attached pair of cottages, now two houses. Early C18 with early C19 rear addition and heightening in mid C19. English bond brick, tiled roof with hip to left, stepped brick stacks. L- plan. Charlton Grange has 2-storey, 2- window front with central planked door in gabled porch and 2-light casements with segmental heads. Right return has C20 door and single casement to first floor, right return of rear range is partly Croft House with C20 porch and four 2-light casements to ground and first floors, three raking dormers with 2-light casements. Left return in chalk with brick bands, C20 door and 1- light and 2-light casements, raking dormer with 2-light leaded latticed casement. Interior has planked doors and chamfered beams.

Former occupiers: Archibald Lawes (1930s-1950s).

Charlton Grange

A grade II listed building - listed as a pair with Croft House. See Croft House for listing description.

Former occupiers: Walter Boon (1930s- 1960s).

LANE TO BODENHAM

The following properties are accessed via the lane off Downton Road leading to Bodenham. Although it seems to have no ‘official’ name, this is known locally as Love Lane at the Bodenham end and Lower Lane or Jiggy-Joggy at the Charlton end. The formal beds of willows along this lane are grown for the making of cricket bats.

FROM THE SOUTH

Charlton Manor Dairy

Matrimony Farmhouse

Built in 1888.

Former occupiers: Geoffrey Read (1953- 1968).

Round House

A grade II listed building.

Listing description: Detached house. Early C19 with mid-C19 additions to south. Flemish bond brick, Westmorland or Welsh slate roofs, brick stacks. Octagonal house with rectangular additions. 2-storey and basement, 5- window front. C20 door in hipped- roofed porch to octagon, all windows are C20 metal casements in Tudor- arched openings with surviving Gothic glazing bars to heads. 2-brick plat band and dentilled eaves course. Rear has C20 French windows to basement with gauged brick Tudor-arched opening, C20 addition to left in same style as rest, some earlier brickwork in header bond to base of rear wall suggests earlier octagon on same site, possibly early C18. Right return has C20 porch. Interior undergoing extensive alteration at time of survey (December 1984) by Longford Estate. Situated in picturesque position on bank overlooking the River Avon, was probably originally visible from Longford Castle and may have been built as a landscape feature.

This property was first built in the early 19th century, probably as a landscape feature or folly for Longford Castle. It was later extended and converted to become the original Matrimony Farmhouse as part of a marriage settlement.

Former occupiers: Thomas James Byron (1953).

The Court House