Market Lavington houses [22]

Image: © Michael Dibb Taken: 19 May 2020

The Old House, number 11 Parsonage Lane, is the only known aisled hall in the county. A manor house built in the 14th century, altered in the 16th century remodelled in the late 17th or early 18th century and restored in 1875. The house contains an early medieval double aisled open hall structure with contemporary cross wing of 2 bays within a rectangular plan of stone walls. Listed, grade I, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1035851 Market Lavington lies at the foot of the north western scarp slope of Salisbury Plain, about 5 miles south of Devizes. There is evidence of continuous occupation of the village since the Iron Age and maybe, near continuous occupation since late Neolithic times. The village developed around the cross roads of an east-west road (now the B3098) and a north-south road which ran from Devizes to Salisbury – later closed. Once considered a town, a market charter was granted in 1254.

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