Blunden’s House 31/07/63 (Formerly listed as Blunden's GV II
Farm House). House. C16, C17 with C20 extensions. Timber frame and
brickwork for the walls, with a tiled roof. A late-medieval hall house of
3 bays, with a cross wing at the south end (extended to the rear C20), and
with a bay added, in style, in the C20 at the north end; 2 storeys, of
irregular fenestration. ½-hipped roof, 2 gabled C20 ½-dormers at the front
and one at the rear. The arch-braced frame is exposed mostly in the upper
part, with brick infill and other walling (showing a filled doorway). C20
leaded casements. Plain boarded door. Inside, the massive chimney breast
(partly of stone construction) has been inserted, and much of the frame is
exposed. A small saint's statue (c1900) is set in a niche in the gable of
the middle dormer.
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