Description

BENTHAM DUKE STREET
SD 66 NE
High Bentham (west side)
6/10
Bentnam Hall
GV II
Formerly farmhouse, now 2 cottages. Mid-late C17 with C20 alterations. Slobbered
rubble, stone dressings, stone slate roof. Two storey gabled entrance bay to
right and 2-storey wing to left which breaks forward slightly. Right-hand entrance
has plain surround and plank door. To left is heightened ground floor 2-light
chamfered window with c1980 mullion, similar but 3-light window on upper floor;
C20 leaded casements. Small window with chamfered surround in gable with 3 rows
of pigeon holes above. A tall stack projects from the left-hand side of the
gable, part of which is butt-jointed. Left-hand wing has ground floor 2-light
chamfered mullioned window and single light chamfered window to right. Upper
floor has 3-light chamfered mullioned window. All have C20 casements. Left-hand
gable end ridge stack. A right-hand wing of the hall was burnt and replaced c1900
by 2 adjoining cottages. A reset decorated panel in a C20 porch is dated 1669
and has initials SH/A.

Listing NGR: SD6639169290

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26424570

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)