Blois Farmhouse

2/69 STEEPLE BUMPSTEAD BLOIS ROAD TL 64 SE 2/69 21/6/62 Blois Farmhouse GV II House, C16, altered in C18 and C19. Timber framed, plastered, roofed with handmade red clay tiles. 3-bay crosswing aligned approx. N-S, late C16, and 3-bay range to W, c.1600, forming an L-plan. Original axial chimney stack in middle bay of E-W range, and stair tower to N of it. Single-storey lean-to extension between stair tower and N wing, with slate roof, C19. 2 storeys. S elevation, 6-panel door in simple doorcase with dentilled cornice below hood, C18, early C19 french windows with marginal lights, one early C19 tripartite sash window of 4-12-4 lights, and one late C19 tripartite sash window of 2-4-2 lights. First floor, one early C19 sash window of 16 lights, and 3 late C19 tripartite sash windows of 2-4-2 lights. C19 fretted bargeboards on gable of crosswing. Grouped diagonal shafts on chimney stack. Some crown glass in early C19 windows on this elevation and E elevation. In dormer at rear, C18 window of 3 fixed lights with rectangular leading and some C18 glass. The interior has jowled posts, curved bracing trenched inside heavy studding, edge-halved and bridled scarfs in wallplates. Axial and transverse beams above ground floor, some boxed in, some plain-chamfered. Cambered tiebeam in crosswing, with clasped purlin roof. 2 large wood-burning hearths reduced for coal grates. RCHM 29.

Listing NGR: TL6850741570