Paynes Place

SO 83 SE BUSHLEY STOKES LANE 4/30 11-8-52 Paynes Place (formerly listed as Paynes Place, GV Bonnell's End)

II*

House late C15 and C16 timber-framed with red herringbone brick infill. Plain tile roofs with C19 ridge stack and East side wall stack. T plan with East end crosswing. 2 storeys. Close-studded timbers throughout. North front, 3 window main range. Casements 5-light, 4-light and 5-light to 1st floor. Ground floor 5-light, two 3-light windows set together and, in angle a lean-to timbered porch, rebuilt possibly with old timbers. Crosswing has 4-light window to each floor. South front: crosswing is jettied with tension braces and a moulded tie-beam to gable. C19 carved bargeboards. 6-light ground floor, 4-light 1st floor and 3-light attic windows. Main range has two 5-light 1st floor windows and two 4-light ground floor windows with door between. At West end is a brick extension, probably early C18, with coped gable and cambered arched windows in gable end, North front altered in C19. Interior: a carved moulded wood doorway to crosswing and in ground floor room part of painted decorative texts commemorating the marriage of A. and M. Stratford 1577. In main range upper floor centre truss of former open hall. Heavy moulded arch braces to collar truss with decorative hollow moulded beams around at wall-plate level. Reputedly built in C15 for Thomas Payne whose brass is in the parish church and visited by Queen Margaret after the battle of Tewkesbury.

Listing NGR: SO8734334023