WEEKE GORE/CRESTWEEKE (NO. 69)
Architect Henry L G Hill, 11 Southgate St., Winchester.
On the building control plans, the owner is listed as Major Alexander of Bolton Lodge, Christchurch Road, Winchester. The plans were approved April 1911. The plans included a drawing room, study, dining room, hall, pantry/kitchen, servants hall, scullery, main bedroom and dressing room plus seven further bedrooms and a bathroom. Also a wine cellar and a Motor House. (Building Control Plans HRO reference W/C11/2/2928).
Originally known as Weeke Gore, the name was changed in 1921 to Crestweeke.
Weeke Gore, along with Rastgarth, unlike the other houses on Chilbolton Ave, are outside the boundary of Winchester City. They are in Weeke Without parish, part of WRDC.
A 'gore' – is a triangular strip of land.
Residents:
Major Claud Henry Alexander (1912-1916)
Duke of Edinburgh's (Wiltshire Regiment)
Lady Elizabeth Constance Sharp Bethune (1921-1931)
Widow of Sir Alexander Sharp Bethune, tea planter in Ceylon.
Widow of Henry Fownes Wingrove
Weeke Gore/Crestweeke changed its name to Dragons in the 1960's.
