Writing in 1931, Victor Strode Manley, as part of his Regional Survey Of Warminster And District, made the following note about Stockton:
The Almshouses “were endowed by John Topp . . . about 1657. They originally consisted of six tenements built around the court. Two more were added in 1714 as wings on each side of the entrance.” (See Wiltshire Archaeological Society magazine, xii, 205). (From Wiltshire Archaeological Society visit 1921).
Heath says they were founded in 1641 “housing eight aged people in a picturesque building.”