Police were called out last night after a gun was sighted outside a Walcot bungalow where police have previously found machetes, drug paraphernalia and a BB gun.

Now, a Swindon district judge has put a three month partial closure order on the Ken Savage Close home after hearing that the tenant was afraid of her 14-year-old son and his “associates”.

The order prevents anyone except the 45-year-old tenant, her son, members of the emergency services and officers working for the housing association that owned the house from going into the property. Doing so is a criminal offence.

Signing off the order – the latest of dozens to be obtained at Swindon Magistrates’ Court this year – District Judge Joanna Dickens said: “I’m satisfied that it’s necessary and proportionate to make the order.”

Papers prepared by Wiltshire Police painted a grim picture, with the bungalow linked to drug dealing and weapons.

A catalogue of police call outs revealed that a machete knife had been found in the garden shed on September 28 and a BB gun discovered at the house on October 6.

There were reports of large groups of young people congregating at the house with “no regard for noise or disruption that they cause within the local community”.

On Monday night police had been called to the street after reports of man with a gun outside the property, PC Michael Diffin told the court on Tuesday morning. No gunman was found by police, although officers found drugs and weighing scales inside the house.

Officers said the bungalow was an “open house” for the teen son’s friends. Weighing scales found in the shed pointed to the outhouse being used to weigh cannabis.

Sgt Richard Fay suggested the bungalow’s tenant was scared of her own son. In a witness statement, he wrote of one visit to the woman: “Whilst speaking to her I heard a bang outside of the address. She also heard the bang and immediately stopped speaking. She said that it might have been her son and that she wouldn’t talk if he was outside. She seemed genuinely afraid of him and the prospect of him hearing her conversations.”

The woman had carers who were meant to come in to check on her four to five times a day, but had found it difficult as a result of the behaviour of the youngsters.

The tenant was not present at the hearing, but was said to support the application.