Description

FRITTENDEN BUBHURST LANE TQ 84 SW (north side) 3/3 Great Bubhurst (formerly 20.6.67 listed as Bubhurst) - II* House. Early C16, extended c.1727 and altered 1790. Timber framed and exposed close studding with plaster infill, and extended with timber frame clad with tile hanging on red and blue brick ground floor. Plain tiled roof. Entrance front: 2 storeys and garret on plinth, tile hung first floor with modillion eaves cornice to roofwith stacks projecting and offset at end left and at end right. Regular fenestration of 3 tripartite glazing bar sashes on first floor, and 2 on ground floor with segmental heads. Central door of 6 panels with rectangular fanlight and moulded and modillioned flat hood on scrolled brackets. Ground floor extended with lean-to roof to end left (originally a bakehouse or brewery) now with half-glazed door to left return with triangular head. Dated to left of central door: William and: P Brown R&H 1727 1790 Rear wing (C16) of 4 framed bays at right angles to entrance elevation. Two storeys on stone plinth with continuous jetty on brackets. Hipped roof with gablet to left, and stack to rear left. Four wooden casements on first floor, and tripartite wooden casement, metal casement, large tripartite wooden casement with segmental head and glazing bar sash on ground floor. Blocked doorway to centre left, with portion of (re-used?) moulded beam to centre right. Half rail throughout ground floor. Rear elevation with catslide outshot and projecting bread oven with stack and stoke-holes at 2 levels, the copper with iron fire-door. Interior: dais screen with vertical lapped boarding and parlour doorway and slightly coved dais beam. Doorway to service end with indented spandrels. Mullioned windows (especially preserved by outshot). Large inglenook with rounded backs. Crown-post roof, the posts rectangular and unmoulded in sections. C18 wing with 1790 carved in rear of inglenook bressummer; with straight flight of stairs and landing with stick balusters and turned newels.

Listing NGR: TQ8315941712

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Recommended Books

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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)