From The West Wiltshire District Guide 1978:
Stockton, set in the Wylye Valley, has a very interesting old Manor House, commenced by John Topp, a cloth merchant, in the time of Elizabeth I and completed by him early in the reign of her successor. The Manor is a very ancient one, traceable in Alfred’s time to one Wulfhere, who apparently forfeited it for misconduct. It was afterwards granted by the Crown to the Convent of St. Swithun, Winchester. The Topp Almshouses, founded in 1641, form a picturesque group of stone buildings round a quadrangle, and the Elizabethan farmhouse, with its Great Barn built by Jerome Poticary, is also noteworthy.
A lane off the main street leads to a group of buildings centred around the church. Here is Long Hall, part half-timbered with an elegant Georgian front, together with some cottages and a Victorian school. The church is impressive, with Norman work in the nave arcades; nave and chancel are separated by a thick wall pierced by a very small archway, and two little side openings like unglazed windows, all Early English. The church is unique in the county since it possesses about a score of mass-dials.
The main street is lined with many thatched estate cottages of stone and half-timber. The whole village presents an attractive open pattern blending into the rural character of the surrounding district.