Lodge Farm

ringsLodge Farm, Staunton Harold This is a double pile timber-framed house of quality, perhaps built for the Keeper of Staunton Harold Great Park in the mid seventeenth century. The elaborate chimneystack and some reused ceiling beams suggest that this house may replace an earlier one on the same site. Tree-ring analysis of 12 samples obtained from the roofs produced a single site chronology, STHDSQ01, having an overall length of 115 rings. These rings were dated as spanning the years 1533 to 1647. Interpretation of the sapwood indicates that all the dated timbers were cut as part of a single programme of felling which was undertaken sometime between 1650 – 55.