Description

SP 5801 GARSINGTON SOUTHEND
(East side)
11/45 No.95
18/07/63 (Formerly the Seven Bells Inn)
- II

Farmhouse, now house. C16/17. Timber-framed with some brick infill on ashlar
plinth; thatched roof with ridge stacks. 3 bay lobby-entry plan. One storey
plus attics. Entrance in left bay with one C20 casement to each bay, probably
in original positions; dormers to centre and right. Framing rises in two rows
of rectangular panels from stone plinth, but at rear and on left gable wall
stonework is storey-height. Tiled oven projection and blocked wood-mullioned
window at rear. Left gable infilled with brick (herring-bone in one panel) and
has an owl-hole. Roof half-hipped. Interior: Large open fireplaces with
an intact bread-oven, and a complete beam structure including curved wind-
braces to each bay of the roof. Formerly belonged to Christ Church College,
Oxford, and is said to have been a public house, The Seven Bells, until early
C20.
(V.C.H. 5, 1957, p136.)

Listing NGR: SP5853601677

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26476897

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