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Hillsome Farm Estate was in existence by the 1730s when the then owner, Hopeful Vokins left a sum of money to the town, which was to be paid out of the rent from his estate. According to the VCH it was built on an enclosure made before 1594. It is located by the Cirencester Road and has been altered from its original buildings. The Land Valuation Survey of 1910 stated that the estate comprised just over 57 acres with a value of £1878. Fixed charges, easements, common rights and restrictions mentions Gloucester & Nailsworth Meeting of Quakers - Hopeful Vokins was a Quaker; Powells School, Cirencester; Witney Meeting of Quakers; Tetbury Bread Charity. Former sales had taken place in 1906 - was this when Arthur J Walmsley bought the property? The farmhouse was stone and stone tile in good repair throughout. On the ground floor was an entrance lobby, sitting room, living room, back kitchen, dairy, pantry whilst upstairs had two bedrooms and above that two attics. There was a water well and a woodshed outside. Farmbuildings comprised a five bay open fronted stone and stone tile shelter with feeding trough, four excellent wood and corrugated iron boxes - tie up for three; large stone and stone tile barn consisting of carthorse stable - tie up for nine; four loose hunting boxes of wood and corrugated iron, milking and rick yards, three stone and stone tile pigsties; fences were wall and a few hedges. All buildings were in good repair. There was no timber except for a few stumps. Sir Walter Preston had it rebuilt in 1922, to designs by Maurice Chesterton, and then had it enlarged in the 1930s. The buildings along the Cirencester Road are now a BUPA nursing home ‘Ilsom House’. The land has been farmed by the following over the years: 1830 George Whitehead, occupier of lands at Hillsome, rent greater than £50 per year entitled him to vote, owner of property was John Bennett of Maidford 1841-1862 Thomas Dee NB he was married to Mary Whitehead 1868-1876 Cornelius Carey [or Kerry] [80acres] 1891 Lucy Maundrell? 1897-1900 Jane Kearsey 1901-1910 Jesse Reynolds 1914 George Douglas Day Brighty. farm bailiff to Arthur J Walmsley 1930s Sir Walter R Preston OWNERS 1730 Hopeful Vokins 1830 John Bennett of Maidford, leased to George Whitehead 1860 John Bennett of Maidford, leased to Thomas Dee 1914 Arthur J Walmsley 1930 Sir Walter Rueben Preston MP
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SOURCES:VCH Gloucestershire Vol 11 available online Maps reproduced with permission of Gloucestershire Archives IR58 - Land Valuation Survey held at the National Archives, Kew.
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