A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



buttery and pantry with the kitchen passage between 

 them. To the south again are modern buildings on 

 the site of the old kitchen, which here, as in many 

 instances, has entirely disappeared, and may have been 

 of wood. At the north or upper end of the hall is a 

 north cross wing, containing the drawing-room, &c., 

 and projecting northward from its western half is a 

 contemporary building which had. an outer stair at its 

 north-east angle. A range of modern date runs along 

 the west side of the house, and in this is the principal 

 entrance. 



Very few of the old features are left, but there are 

 several single-light windows in the north block, three 



known as the priest's room ; it seems to have consisted 

 of a living room with a chamber over, but there 

 is no real evidence in favour of its current name. 

 The original main stair perhaps occupied the same 

 position at the west end of the north wing as the 

 present stair, but the many alterations which the 

 house has undergone must make the arrangements of 

 its upper floor conjectural only. 



The new rectory, built within the last few years by 

 the present rector, the Rev. R. F. Biggwither, stands on 

 high ground over the meadows to the north-west of 

 the church and north of Hunton Lane. 



At the north end of Sutton Scotney village a road 



OLD BECTOEY 

 WONSTON 



cpoand FLOOR PLAD 



on the ground floor and two on the first floor, which 

 are of mediaeval date, and the upper and lower door- 

 ways to the staircase which formerly adjoined the 

 north-east angle of the north rooms yet remain. 

 There is some good panelling in the hall screens, but 

 otherwise nearly everything has given way to eighteenth 

 or nineteenth-century work, the old windows being re- 

 placed by square-headed sash windows. A bay window 

 has been added to the drawing-room in modern times, 

 and the east porch is modern. The roof over the 

 hall is not the original one of open timber, but seems 

 to date from after the insertion of an upper floor in 

 the hall. The building projecting northward from 

 the main north wing is an unusual feature, and is 



branches east, crosses the river near a house called 

 Egypt, the residence of Dr. Charles Wickham, and 

 continuing in a north-easterly direction for about 

 three-quarters of a mile, reaches the one or two out- 

 buildings and cottages which with Cranborne Farm 

 and Cranborne Cottage, the residence of Miss Childers 

 and Miss Carta Sturge, compose the whole of Cran- 

 borne. Cranborne Cottage, representing the union 

 of two or perhaps three small cottages, stands on the 

 west side of the road in a long peaceful garden which 

 stretches away north-west to the adjoining fields of 

 Norton Farm. Cranborne Farm stands a few yards 

 higher up the road on the opposite side. The old 

 house, round which run the traces of a moat, is in all 



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