Bourney'S Farmhouse

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