Bodham'S

ST 11 SW HEMYOCK 5/35 Bodham's

• II Detached house, formerly a farmhouse. Circa 1700. Plastered and roughcast random rubble flint and cob; hipped and gable end corrugated asbestos roof. Originally a 2-room, baffle entry plan house, with a later (probably early C19) wing to the rear of the right-hand room. A bathroom (with chamber above) has been added to the right-hand end of the main range. 2 storeys. Exterior. Front: originally 2, but now a 3-window range; 2-light casement windows to first floor, some with glazing bars; ground floor : 4-pane horned sash window to left-hand room, 3-light casement window to right, (2-light window to bathroom). Stone porch; wide planked and studded door. Casement windows to left-hand end (the gable wall rebuilt in breezeblock); rear wing : outer face with 4-light casement window to first floor, 8 leaded panes per light; C19 6-light window to ground floor. 3-light C19 casement window to opposite side. Interior: right-hand room with chamfered cross ceiling beam with run-out stop; fireplace with bead moulding to jambs and lintel which are pegged together, and looks very early C18. 2 doors with large fielded panels, 1 with HL hinges. The left-hand room altered, the fireplace with eroded lintel. The original roof survives above the right-hand room : 1 collar rafter truss, morticed and pegged at apex, with a full complement of rafters pegged over the ridge piece. Wing roof with principals halved and pegged at apex.

Listing NGR: ST1425112803