Description

TL 89 NW
5/24

HILBOROUGH
BODNEY
Bodney Hall Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C16 core extended during C18. Additional pile of circa 1840. C19 service extensions.
Original block timber frame largely replaced with brick. Extension and service wing in flint with brick dressings. Front block rendered. Slate roofs. Original block lengthened to south, pile added to west and service wing to east. 2 storeys. Front block of 3 bays of sash windows with glazing bars. Central flat-roofed open porch supported on a pair of Roman Doric columns. Part-glazed panelled front door beneath a semicircular fanlight. Hipped roof. Facade of rear block consists of a brick skin with irregular fenestration consisting of 3 sash windows with glazing bars beneath segmental arches and a panelled door to ground floor. Gabled half dormers above with casements and 2 narrow sash windows with glazing bars. Terracotta quatrefoil with heart set beneath kneeler corbel of north east gable parapet. North gable-end of brick with close tumbling-in. Similar tumbling-in to south gable-end into flint fabric. Gable-end stacks. Very long service wing of flint with 5 bays of brick dressed casement windows beneath segmental arches.
Interior. Front block has elaborate moulded architraves with corner paterae and a heavily moulded staircase with turned balusters. Rear block with C16 roll and cavetto moulded principal beams to ground floor. Fine queen post roof structure retained within the later roof space. Evidence of surviving parts of timber frame mainly obscured by plaster.

Listing NGR: TL8305698528

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26343914

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)