Bunkers

GREAT GADDESDEN BRADDEN LANE TL 01 SW (East side) Jockey End 3/66 Bunkers 26.1.67 - II

House. C17, chimney later C17, renovated in later C20. Timber frame exposed on 1st flcor with red brick infill. Ground floor renewed in red brick. Steep old red tile roof. A 2-storeys and attics house facing N with lobby entrance by stack a third from E end. A 3-cells plan with unheated W room originally and stair probably to rear of chimney. Large chimney rises through ridge with three conjoined square flues and panelled side to front. 2 ground floor fireplaces and brick fireplace with chamfered and hollow stopped lintel to chamber over hall. Irregular fenestration with 4 small-pane casements to each floor. Bays have 4, 3, 5, and ?4 panels externally on front, the narrowest being an entrance- and-chimney bay. Clasped-purlin roof with collars and square butted scarf joints in purlins and wall-plate. Straight brace in front wall. Bread oven said to have been destroyed for new staircase in entrance lobby. Photographic evidence at house suggests a timber framed chimney preceded the present brick one in the same narrow bay. Axial floor beams in rooms to each side of stack with higher degree of finish in E end room, probably the parlour. Cross-beam in W end room.

Listing NGR: TL0361713352