Bonners

Farmhouse, now a private house. The rear range dates to the 16th century, while the front block was built in the early 17th century and restored in the 1930s. The house is timber framed with a red brick sill and later brick infill. The front block has red brick casing with grey headers on the ground floor. It has steep, old red tile roofs and is shaped like a ‘T’, facing south at a bend in the lane. The lower, two-storey, five-bay rear range has a narrow middle bay with a large chimney serving the room to the south of it, and two diagonally set square chimney shafts above the roof. Casement windows and plank doors are present. Notable features include jowled posts, a clasped-purlin roof, straight wind-braces, straight braces to tie-beams and wallplates. The south bay of the rear range was converted into a passage and dairy when the taller, symmetrical front block was added. The two-storey, cellar, and attic front block has a two-cell, lobby-entry plan, with a stair rising from the parlour to the west of the entrance, and a cellar below (now accessed externally). The symmetrical south front has a narrower central entrance and chimney structural bay. There are two 3-light casement windows on each floor, with rectangular leaded glazing; the upper windows are flanked by small, high, ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. A panelled door is set within a hip-roofed tile and brick porch, with a blocked window above it. A large central chimney in red brick has three diagonally set shafts, each topped with corbelled caps. The interior features flint walls in the cellar, ovolo-moulded axial beams in the floors, straight corner braces in the walls, and a parlour fireplace built with Totternhoe stone, featuring a depressed 4-centred arch, a high lintel, and moulded jambs with high stops. A similar arrangement exists on the first floor. There is a small timber-framed outshut in the northeast angle, on a half-level. Plank doors have old iron fittings. The roof structure is of a three-bay clasped-purlin type with heavy purlins spanning the long end bays. Heavy, inverted-wedge-shaped queen-posts support the purlins, and squint-butted scarf joints connect to the wallplate.