Pl London Golf Club

TL 20 NE ESSENDON Bedwell Park (PL London Golf Club)

9/50

22.8.72

• II

Rambling country house of several periods, mainly c1860. Late C17 section to right of centre. 3 windows left of centre, early C18. Exterior recased and building extended both ends in 1861 by Hambry family. Red brick with dark red brick diaper work. Windows with flush stone windows and sills, those of right wing with Tudor hood moulds. Machine tile roof. 2-3 storeys. Sash and casement windows, most glazing bars removed. Entrance elevation dominated by 4-storey tower porch with crenellated parapet and corbelled stone eaves. Arched doorway with traceried half-glazed doors. Many gables and gabled projections to elevations. Tudor style polygonal chimney stacks. N end of range has C17 former barn, tie beams exposed, now brick faced with slate roof. Brick chapel adjoins with lancet style ground floor and modern upper floor. S end of house has central 1st floor balcony window with 2 cusped lights and moulded, carved stone soffit. Interior has c1730 staircase rising to attic on left centre with alternate plain and barleytwist balusters. An early-mid C17 staircase, possibly brought from elsewhere was moved c1980 from entrance hall and is now in pieces in the C17 wing. Front courtyard enclosed by 1861 wall, red brick pierced with square stone quatrefoil panels.

Listing NGR: TL2767407651