Description

OCCOLD BULLS HALL ROAD
TM 16 NE
4/33 Grove Farmhouse
- II
Farmhouse. Late C16, service end probably a later rebuild. Timber framed,
mainly mid C20 textured render, right gable end roughcast-rendered. Slated
roof. 3-cell form. 2 storeys and attic. C20 casement windows, those to the
ground floor of standard type. To the left is a plank door within a mid C20
conservatory-style porch. Internal stack with low mid C20 shaft. Smaller
stack to left, forward of the roof ridge. Long one-storey range set forward
to right. Fine interior with complete heavy studding in hall and parlour
cells. Tie beam over hall chamber has solid braces. Chamfered joists; the
joists in the hall chamber are unusual in that they are laid flat to one side
of the bridging beam and on-edge to the other. At lower end of hall is a C16
panelled cross-partition with moulded muntins. Newel stairs, the attic flight
with some solid treads. Early C19 parlour chamber fireplace with reeded
surround. Roof over hall and parlour has a single row of wind-braced clasped
purlins.

Listing NGR: TM1696869657

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508569

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)