Bonds

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TQ 54 SW SPELDHURST BULLINGSTON LANE

3/465 "Bonds"

Formerly listed as; (BULLINGSTON LANE Hamiltons (formerly Bonds Cottages))

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Former farmhouse. Late C16 with C17 extensions, renovated circa 1960. Timber-framed. Ground floor is mostly underbuilt with C20 red brick although most of the main posts descend into the C20 brick. Most of the framing is exposed but some is hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg- tile roof.

Plan: L-plan house. The main block faces north east, uphill. It has a 3- room plan. At the left (north west) end is an unheated room. In the centre a heated room with an axial stack backing onto the left room which has the kitchen at the front with an entrance lobby and the main stair to rear. One- room block projecting at right angles behind the left end has a stack backing onto the main block. The layout is essentially the result of the circa 1960 modernisation.

The late C16 house occupied the left (south eastern) 2-room section of the main block; the main living room and the unheated service room to left. In the C17 the living room was downgraded to the kitchen and a new service room added onto the right end (divided into 2 by an axial beam) and a parlour wing added to the back. Some time later the farmhouse was divided into cottages but was reunited circa 1960.

Exterior: Irregular 3-window front of C20 timber-framed windows containing iron-framed casements and retangular panes of leaded glass. The left 2 bays of the framing are from the late C16 house and also have curving tension braces. The right bay is the C17 extension. Roof is gable-ended to right and hipped to left. Right gable-end wall frame is exposed and survives at ground floor level. Ground floor-has a 9-light window which has been enlarged from a pair of 3-light service windows with diamond mullions. Other sides continue in the same style. Framing has tension braces and there is a concave one in the parlour wing. Circa 1960 the parlour wing was extended a short distance. Parlour wing roof is slightly taller than the main block roof. Main doorway through the left end and contains a C20 plank door with coverstrips.

Interior: Modernised circa 1960 but the framed structure is largely original although some joists have been rearranged (particularly in the entrance hall and former parlour). The main block kitchen has an axial beam and joists, all chamfered with step stops, and a large brick fireplace with chamfered oak lintel with a low Tudor arch. The parlour fireplace is sandstone with a chamfered oak lintel. The roof structure is mostly covered with insulation but the early structure is thought to survive; it is some kind of side purlin construction.

Listing NGR: TQ5451841080

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