Description

TL 63 SE GREAT BARDFIELD BESLYNS ROAD

3/112 Great Pitley Farmhouse

- II

House. C16, extended in C19. Timber framed and plastered, partly gault brick
and flint, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. Main range of 4 bays facing SE,
with brick stack in left bay, and 4-bay crosswing to left, extending to rear.
C19 internal stack near right end, external stack on left return wall. Parallel
range in N angle, early C19, with axial stack, completing a rectangular plan. 2
storeys. Ground floor, 3 C20 casements. First floor, one more, and 4 early C19
sashes of 12 lights. Door with 6 fielded panels in early C19 Gothick porch of
gault brick and knapped flint, with 2-centred outer arch, stepped gable with
pinnacles, and in each side a window with 2-centred arch and intersecting
tracery. The interior exhibits evidence of a continuous jetty facing SE, now
underbuilt, and has chamfered transverse and axial beams (some boxed in), and
jowled posts. Most of the frame is plastered, but the lower rear room of the
crosswing has exposed studding with curved bracing trenched to the inside, some
original wattle and daub infill, moulded transverse and axial beams, and moulded
joists of horizontal section, characteristic of the mid-C16. The main stack has
been altered so as to form an arch over a ground floor doorway. The roof of the
main range is of clasped purlin construction with arched wind-bracing. The
early C19 range has a large bread oven with wrought iron door and separate flue,
and associated wash boiler/brewing vat. RCHM 42.

Listing NGR: TL6634732707

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26439047

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)