Whetham, Wiltshire
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51°24′43″N 2°01′52″W / 51.4119°N 2.0312°W Whetham is a former manor in Derry Hill & Studley parish, Wiltshire, England. No settlement remains beyond a farm, a few cottages and a country house called Whetham House.
Whetham is about 2 miles (3.2 km) south-west of the town of Calne, north of what is now the A3102 road and about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Sandy Lane village.[1] To the north lies the Bowood House estate. The Whetham stream flows into the estate, where it is dammed to form an artificial lake.
There was a manor house here in the early 15th century or earlier.[2] The present Whetham House was built in the 17th century, probably on an earlier core, and was extended in the 19th century. Built largely of rubble stone, with two storeys and an attic, Historic England states it has a "complex rambling plan".[3] In 1728 there were extensive formal gardens, and a park lay south of the house. The house was approached from the north (along a road which is now a track) or from the London-Bath road to the south. Changes in 1790–1791 brought that road closer to the house.[2]
The farmhouse at Whetham Farm was rebuilt in the early 19th century in squared ironstone.[4] Nearby is a barn from the late 18th century or early 19th, in rubble stone and red brick.[5] There was a mill on the Whetham stream, north-east of the house, but it was demolished in 1817.[6]