Description

TL 4070 WILLINGHAM HIGH STREET
(West Side)

11/153 No. 34
11.12.81 (Bourney's Farmhouse)

II

House, 1696. Timber framed, roughcast and cement rendered with
steeply pitched roof, now of asbestos but formerly thatched.
Original end stacks of local red brick mostly cement rendered
except for string course. Typical late C17 T-plan with original
kitchen in wing at rear. Front range, plan of two rooms
flanking narrower hall and stairbay. Two storeys. Three
windows at first floor, including smaller closet window, all C19
or C20 above central doorway, flanked by C19 canted bay and a
four pane C19 hung sash. Interior: One of the ground floor
rooms, possibly the parlour, has a plaster roundel with the date
1696 and a border of flowers and foliage. The rear range is
cellared. Several doors have been made from re-used C18 raised
and fielded panelling.

Listing NGR: TL4020570285

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26616245

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey