The Hermitage

GREAT BOOKHAM LOWER ROAD TQ 1354 NE (south side) 14/98

7.9.51 No.193 (The Hermitage)

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House. Probably late C17, with C19 additions and alterations. Hand-made brick and some flint, mostly covered by roughcast painted white, plus some weatherboarding at the rear; brick chimneys. Shallow U-plan formed by a 3-unit single-depth main range with an extension at each end, and projecting wings added to the front of both. Two storeys and 5 bays; plinth to the main range; a 2-storey flat-roofed porch in the re-entrant angle to the right with C19 hoodmoulds over both the doorway and a 12-pane sashed window above; to the left, the ground floor has a 12-pane sashed window breaking the plinth in the centre, with a similar hoodmould, and a canted bay window to the left of this; the 1st floor has two 12-pane sashes. Each wing has a canted bay window at ground floor and a 12-pane sash above. Ridge chimney and gable chimneys, all with cornices. The rear has a ground-floor loggia supporting a weather-boarded corridor added to the 1st floor; the ground floor has a plinth incorporating some flint, a central doorway and two 12-pane sashes; the added upper floor has two 16-pane sashes; the 1st bay of the addition at the east end projects and has a small segmental-headed window on each floor; the end bay has a dormer, and a square weather-boarded outbuilding with pyramidal roof overlaps it. Interior: altered, but the 3-bay roof of the main range has 4 sets of collar trusses, the 1st and 4th close to gable walls of modern brick, and coupled rafters with scratched carpenter's marks; the joists are tenoned into a central purlin and have carpenter's marks in Roman numerals. History: Fanny Burney is said to have lived here c.1790-1800.

Listing NGR: TQ1357754648