Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction With Andover Road
FAIR BOOTH APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ANDOVER ROAD, WEYHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253852
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction With Andover Road
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR BOOTH APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ANDOVER ROAD, WEYHILL ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253852
- Date first listed:
- 20-Apr-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Fair Booth Approximately 500 Yards South East of Junction With Andover Road
- Statutory Address 1:
- FAIR BOOTH APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ANDOVER ROAD, WEYHILL ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FAIR BOOTH APPROXIMATELY 500 YARDS SOUTH EAST OF JUNCTION WITH ANDOVER ROAD, WEYHILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Penton Grafton
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 31378 46789
Details
SU 34 NW PENTON GRAFTON WEYHILL ROAD Weyhill
4/10001 Fair booth approx. 500 yds south east of junction with Andover+Road
GV II Former fair booth. Early C19. Flint with brick dressings. Corrugated asbestos roof. Rectangular plan. Single storey. Boarded up entrance flanked by windows with horizontally set shutters, the lower leaves dropping down to form a counter, the upper forming a canopy. This booth is one of the surviving remnants of Weyhill Fair, one of the most important historic fairs in the country which is documented in 1225 and continued until 1959. William Cobbett visited the fair several times and made reference to it and the hop growers in Rural Rides. Thomas Hardy immortralised Weyhill Fair in The Mayor of Casterbridge. renaming it Weydon Priors. The booth is also an important survival of permanent fair booths which are a rare building type.
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Listing NGR: SU3195047926
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437158
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hardy, T, The Mayor of Casterbridge, ()
Cobbett, W, Rural Rides, (1821)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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