Salt's Hole

SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1023187
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1986
Statutory Address:
SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1023187
Date first listed:
17-Apr-1986
Statutory Address 1:
SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

Location

Statutory Address:
SALT'S HOLE, STOKE COMMON LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Purton
National Grid Reference:
SU 08429 90608

Details

SU 09 SE PURTON STOKE COMMON LANE Purton Stoke

8/341 Salt's Hole

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Salt spring well house, 1859. Brick, rendered and lined as ashlar above brick plinth. slate roof. Octagonal, with small side buttresses. Central door with 2-centred arch and trefoil headed windows either side, all with ashlar surrounds. Carved bargeboards with timber pendents at angles. Apex of roof has a turned wood finial. Interior has simple fireplace on back wall and plaster flat ceiling. To rear, two 2-light windows above ceiling. Well in centre with iron-bound stone capping. Inscription over door reads: THE ANCIENT /SALT'S HOLE/SULPHATED AND BROMO-IODATED/SALINE WATER/ANALYSED BY D VOELKER 1860. This building, and the adjoining Spa Cottage at Purton based on this saline spring rich in phosphate of lime. (Reference: Richardson, M S. The Storey of Purton, 1919).

Listing NGR: SU0842990608

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317986
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Richardson, M S, The Story of Purton, (1919)

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