Description

SP 59 SW
3/74

DUNTON BASSETT
MAIN STREET
No 20 Bloomhills Farmhouse

II

Farmhouse. C17 possibly a remodelling of an earlier house,
remodelled again in C18 and late C19. Timber frame faced in
Flemish bond red brick, south gable and rendered. Machine tile
roof with tile-coped gable ends. Brick axial and gable end
stacks.

Plan: 3-room and cross-passage plan, the low end to left (north)
and parlour on right, both heated from gable end stacks; the hall
with an axial stack backing onto the cross-passage. In the wing
behind the low left end an unheated room (dairy) and beyond that
the back kitchen with a gable end fireplace.

2 storeys. Symmetrical 4-window range but far doorway to left of
centre. C19 3-light casements with horizontal glazing bars,
segmental brick arges and ramped brick cills. Moulded wooden
doorcase with flat canopy on shaped brackets and panelled and
glazed door. At rear various casement windows, some with glazing
bars.

Interior: The left (north) room and cross-passage have ovolo-
moulded axial beams with convex stops with notches. Central room
(hall) has deeply chamfered axial beam with cyma stops and large
fireplace, into which a C19 chimneypiece and cupboards have been
inserted. The right hand room (parlour) has boxed-in axial beam
and panelled cupboards either side of fireplace with elliptical
arches and fielded panel doors. In rear wing the former doorway
has stopped chamfer axial beam, the chamber above with lime floor.
Back-kitchen behind has large fireplace with chamfered bressumer
supported at one end on an iron column and with a moulded shelf.
C18 and C19 panelled and plank doors and staircase with stick
balusters and bulbous newel. Two roof trusses in main range and
one in rear wing with roughly-hewn slightly curved principals,
crossed and pegged at apex and set on tie-beams; (not smoke-
blackened), a sort of upper-cruck.

Listing NGR: SP5473090686

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26543007

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Recommended Books

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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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