Description

OCCOLD BENNINGHAM GREEN
TM 17 SE
1/31 Benningham Grange
- II
Farmhouse. C16, the main range extended to left in late C18. Timber framed
and plastered. Roof to front of main range has double Roman tiles, with 2
rows of slates at the foot of the slope. Remainder pantiled. 2 storeys. A
3-cell main range with service wing to rear forming L-shape plan. 3 windows,
old 4-light mullion and transom casements without glazing bars; wooden
hoodmoulds. Central late C18 doorway, the doorcase with eared architrave and
broken pediment supported on brackets with guttae; 6-panel raised and fielded
door, blind semi-circular fanlight with Y-tracery and cusping. Flanking the
doorway is a pair of cross windows. Internal stack with plain oblong shaft,
the lower part original. Later stack at left gable end. Hall has mutilated
chamfered-joist ceiling and an open fireplace; at one end the studded former
outside wall of the C16 range is visible. Upper floor not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1687370239

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26577308

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)