Biddestone houses [33]

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Biddestone houses [33]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 26 Feb 2020

Hawthorn Cottage (see also Image) is unusual. The original part (to the right) is mid 18th century with the main front on the right. In the early 19th century the house has been extended on the left with a roughly symmetrical front created - the original north end wall in rubblestone to the right and the extension's north wall in ashlar to the left. The attic window to the left is blind in a dummy wall to hide the extension's different roof pitch. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283622 Biddestone, some three miles west of Chippenham, has Saxon origins and is a quintessential English village with a green, a pub and a duck pond. There were originally two manors which became one in the early 17th century. An agricultural village that is now mostly a home to workers who commute to Chippenham, most of the buildings date from the late 1700s.

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Image Location

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Latitude
51.460221
Longitude
-2.19628