Digital Photographs and Written Scheme of Investigation from a Historic Building Survey and Archaeological Monitoring: Goldfinch Cottage, Place Lane, Compton, Winchester, Hampshire, 2018
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Introduction
Allen Archaeology Limited (AAL) was commissioned by Rockliffe Williams Architects to undertake a programme of historic building recording and archaeological monitoring as a condition of planning consent for residential development at Goldfinch Cottage, Place Lane, Compton, SO21 2BA in Winchester, Hampshire.
The building survey comprised areas of the cottage affected by the plant, the covered area flanking the west side of the cottage and an outbuilding situated towards the southwest corner of the development area. The survey was undertaken on June 2nd 2018.
All groundworks associated with the proposed development were subject to archaeological monitoring and recording between the 12th and 14th September 2018. The works identified four broad phases of construction. The first phase was associated with the construction of the cottage, which may have its origins in the 14th century. During the second phase in the 18th-19th century, the cottage was extended to the southwest, now functioning as a kitchen. In the mid-19th century two further extensions were added towards the southwest and the north. A possible foundation of the kitchen to the north was encountered during the archaeological monitoring, as was a water cistern of similar date to the east. When the cottage changed owners in the mid-20th century the cottage layout was once again amended. The north extension was largely removed and converted into a covered patio area with a surrounding dwarf wall. In conjunction with this a soakaway/cistern was added to the northwest corner of the area which was connected to a culvert above, now demolished. The outbuilding to the west is a 20th century shed, built within the footprint of an earlier 19th century structure, originally part of an east-west orientated range of outbuildings that were demolished in the late 19th-early 20th century. A brick structure encountered in the southwest section during the archaeological monitoring is likely to relate to the original outbuilding.
