JOHN OF GAUNTS PALACE

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Medieval Manor house documented in 1362 when it was passed on to the wife of John of Gaunt. The site of the house is indicated by earthworks and fragments of walling. The current building, Palace Farm dates from the 16th century, was refronted during the 17th/18th century and converted into two houses circa 1965. Excavations have also located the remains of an extensive Saxon settlement. Evidence was also recovered for prehistoric occupation, 16th century and later buildings and field boundaries associated with Palace Farm.

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[Name centred SU36003085] JOHN OF GAUNT'S PALACE [GT]
(Site of) (1)

"John of Gaunt's Palace, now called Palace Farm, is situated on
the right of the road near the church, some little distance outside the deer-park. Tradition says that the present building is on the site of the stables." (2)

Full manorial history. In 1591 it was described as "a verey
fayer and Anncyent House". In 1362 the manor passed to the wife of John of Gaunt, and in 1399 to the Crown. (3)

The site of the manor house is indicated by an area of broken ground ('A' - SU 36003090), in which fragments of flint walling
are visible at 'B' (7m. long, 1m. thick, and 0.4m. high, and
including a few mediaeval or tudor bricks) and at (C).

Around the site are a number of earthworks mostly very slight
and probably indicating the position of the kitchen gardens,
etc.

Two parallel banks, however, to the west of the site, are too
massive (see section D-E) to be so explained and no suggestion can be offered as to their purpose.

Palace Farm (at SU36103088 'F') has been almost entirely
modernized, externally and internally, but two stone millioned
windows (late 16th-early 17th cent.) survive in the west wall.
There are no visible traces of earlier work. (4)

The site has been allowed to become overgrown and with the
exception of the two parallel banks noted by Authy. 4 all is
amorphous.
Palace Farm is as described.
Published 1:2500 (1967) correct. (5)

(SU 36003085) John of Gaunt's Palace (NR) Site of (NAT) (6)

No change. (7)

Evidence of extensive Saxon settlement was found during excavations at the school and churchyard adjacent to, and in the non-scheduled area at the south of, the John of Gaunt Palace site in 1984-5.

Indications of prehistoric occupation were also found, together with domestic refuse scatter from the 16th century onwards.
Linear features extending beyond the scheduled monument were interpreted as Post Medieval field and orchard boundaries associated with Palace Farm. (8-9)

Palace Farm (formerly Place Farm), architectural survey. (10)

Palace Farm, 16th century core, refronted 17th/18th century. Converted in circa 1965 into two dwellings, Old Palace Lodge and Palace Farmhouse. Grade 2. The two 16th century stone mullioned windows (authy 4) survive in pieces in the garden. (11)

SOURCE TEXT

( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1910

( 2) General reference

Field Arch as Illus by Hants 1915 226 (JP Williams-Freeman)

(3) edited by William Page, F.S.A. 1911 The Victoria history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, volume four

The Victoria history of the counties of England Page(s)470-2

( 3a) General reference

Duchy of Lanc Misc Books cxvi fol 4

(4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 VB 16-FEB-1956

(5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 CFW 03-DEC-1968

(6) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:2500 1967

(7) Field Investigators Comments

F3 JGB 07-OCT-1982

(8) Medieval archaeology : journal of the Society for Medieval Archaeology

29, 1985 Page(s)181

(9) Hampshire County Council Archaeology in Hampshire, annual report

(1984-85) Page(s)31-32

(10) General reference

Molyneux N, Hampshire Field Club - Historical Buildings Newsletter 2, 1983 Page(s)6-8

(11) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

Test Valley District, Feburary 1986, 74

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