Bunces Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. A Medieval Hall house.
Bunces Farm
- WRENN ID
- lost-paling-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Hall house
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bunces Farm is a Wealden hall house that has been converted into two houses. It dates from the 15th century and has been altered in the 1980s. The building is timber framed with close studding, plaster infill, and a plain tiled roof. It features four framed bays and a screen passage, along with a projecting 20th-century wing.
The entrance front is two storeys high on a plinth, with jettied end bays that return, although the left bay is obscured by the 20th-century wing. The structure includes arched bracing and a flying wall plate supported by arched braces over the hall bays. The roof is hipped, with stacks located to the centre right and projecting at both the left and right ends. The fenestration is irregular; there is a large two-storey 17th-century canted bay window inserted into the left hall bay, featuring red brick on the ground floor with six mullion and transom lights, and close-studding on the first floor with six mullion and transom lights as well. To the right, there are two wooden casements on each floor and a boarded door located to the centre left.
The right return of the building largely consists of the 20th-century wing, which incorporates re-used medieval timbers. It showcases an exposed dragon post and return jetty of the Wealden end bay, along with a large projecting stack made of stone and brick. The rear front reveals exposed close studding and arch bracing. Inside, there is a crown post roof.
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