Description

TM 37 NE WISSETT THE STREET

5/75 Bond's Farmhouse
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- II

Farmhouse. Late C16. 2 storeys and attics; basic 2-cell lobby-entrance plan,
with a small C20 wing added on the west side. Timber-framed and rendered;
south gable end faced in colour-washed brick; clay pantiles. The internal
chimney-stack has a plain red brick shaft. Various 2-light and 3-light
casement windows. The original lobby-entrance door is blocked. Frame, of
good, plain timbering, in 4 bays, including the chimney-bay. Full height
studs; short stud-to-stud arched braces in the long walls. Various blocked
original windows, one on the upper floor of 6 lights, with damaged diamond
mullions in situ. The upper ceilings, one of which is exposed, are original.
The chimney-stack has 2 back-to-back hearths on each floor, one on the ground
floor with a plain timber lintel. A newel stair beside the stack leads to the
first floor and attic. The roof has cambered collars and one row of unstepped
butt purlins.

Listing NGR: TM3711679320

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572254

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)