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Hilperton Lock-up

Overview

Location   Church Street (beside war memorial)  Hilperton

County   Wiltshire

Year Opened   unknown

Year Closed   unknown

Century of Operation   1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-1999

ExteriorPhoto © David Smith (cc-by-sa/2.0)

Further information can be found at
https://www.prisonhistory.org/lockup/hilperton-lock-up/

Descriptions

  • 'A late-C17 village lock-up or blind house, altered in the circa early C20, and restored in 1978. MATERIALS: the lock up has limestone ashlar walls and roof. PLAN: it has an unequal sided octagonal single cell plan. EXTERIOR: the small, single storey building has a doorway with plain, limestone chamfered surround facing the street, and with a late-C20 door. The building has a plat band to a domed roof, and is topped with a ball finial. The rear, facing a private garden, was not inspected.'
    Historic England, National Heritage List for England, 'Former Lock Up c40m NE of Church Farm' LEN 1194173

  • 'octagonal-shaped lock-up ... set into a garden wall. The original door, opening on to the street, has been blocked up. though fragments of ironwork remain to the side of it, and a new door has been cut on the garden side converting it into a gazebo. It possessed a domed roof of similar construction to others in the area, but with an exceptionally large ball finial.'
    Leslie Brooke, Some West-Country Lock-Ups (Castle Cary, Fox Publications, 1985), pp. 18, 125

Sources

  • Roy's Blog, 'WILTSHIRE. Lock-ups at Heytesbury, Hilperton and Lacock.' (22 March 2013)
    http://roys-roy.blogspot.com/2013/03/lock-ups-at-heytesbury-hilperton-and.html
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, 'Former Lock Up c40m NE of Church Farm' LEN 1194173
    https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1194173
  • Leslie Brooke, Some West-Country Lock-Ups (Castle Cary, Fox Publications, 1985), pp. 18, 125