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Description: | The barn is an 18th century building four bays long with a timber frame and brick in filling and a tiled hipped roof. Alton was a royal manor before the Conquest and the site of the Manor of Eastbrook was subsequently called Amery Farm, leased by the Abbot of Hyde to John Hockly in 1583. In 1611 it belonged to John Knight of Chawton and eventually was owned by John Gaythorne Wood of Thedden. In more recent times it became the property of the Chalcraft family until the early 1930s when the farm was split up and sold, the farmhouse and a small estate being bought by F W Lerwill. Over time the lands have been built upon , some of the barns converted and all that remains is the farmhouse itself, now used as business premises. This barn was converted into three dwellings when the whole area was redeveloped as Steeple Drive, The Cloisters, The Barn and Chapter Court in 1988. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Margaret Smith | Subjects: | John Knight building Chapter Court John Hockly house Steeple Drive The Barn farm barn F W Lerwill street the Cloisters Chalcraft Amery Farm John Gaythorne Wood | Temporal: | start=1983-01-01; end=1983-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Copied by: Smith, Margaret; 1980s | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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