Description

SP 59 SW
3/11

DUNTON BASSETT
BENNETTS HILL (North East Side)
No.4 (Manor Farmhouse)

GV
II

House. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed with brick panel infill. Plain
tiled roof, replacing thatch. Two storeys, T-plan, with main range at right
angles to street. This range is raised on a granite plinth, with sill beam
and post and truss construction. Continuous vertical posts with two middle
rails and curved arched braces at the angles. The gable wall is three panels
wide and the total length is nine panels. Queen strut with collar and upper
V-strut roof truss visible in gable apex. Two light casement windows in the
gable end and also on the inner wall. Gable and axial stacks. The wing is
probably at least partially of similar construction although of a timber
frame, only the wall plate is visible beneath the render. Outer doorway and
new oriel bay window with a three light casement in eyebrow dormer above.
Coped gable, corbelled out, with stack. Beyond this is an additional bay of
less height which is of less interest and excluded from the schedule.

Listing NGR: SP5465490596

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26472869

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)