Bunyans Cottage

TL 12 NE PRESTON HITCHIN ROAD (West side)

2/98 Bunyans Cottage Wain Wood

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House. C17 in 2 phases (middle part older), W extension mid C19, rear extensions late 1960s. Timber frame on red brick sill, red brick panel infill and steep old red tile roofs. W extension red brick with timber box eaves. Flat roofed rear extensions of white weatherboarding over red brick ground floors. A 2-storeys, 3-bays house facing S with 2-storeys single-cell C19 extension to W. Door into W end of wider middle bay of original house with C18 corner chimney inserted in SW corner of house. Front wall internal C18 chimney about 2M from E end. S front has battened door under gabled timber porch with 2-lights flush casement window over with small panes. Single-light casement flanks door. A similar 2-light casement to each floor of W extension, the ground floor with segmental arch. Frame exposed on both floors on S and E sides of old house. E gable has 2 2-lights casements to 1st floor and one on ground floor. Jowled posts, mid-height rail, central post to gable, clasped-purlin roof on collar at gable. On a secluded site in the wood associated with preaching by John Bunyan. Interior has exposed timbers, axial beams, corner fireplace to SE corner, moulded and chamfered lintel and 2 recesses to front-wall fireplace of E room (parlour), 2 posts side-by-side in rear wall where this E bay was added. (RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1812225474