Bachelors Hall

ST35SE EAST BRENT CP GILLS LANE (East side) Rooks Bridge

6/69 Bachelors Hall

9.2.61

• II

House. Late C18. Roughcast, pantile roof, coped verges, 2 brick stacks. Gothick; garden frontage of 2 storeys, 3 bays, 2-light casements, those to ground floor 2-light in an elaborate gothick style, those to first floor 2-light with glazing bars featuring marginal lights. Central door opening, 6-panelled door; C20 verandah enclosing left half of ground floor, pantile roof with glazed panels; two bay addition to right of frontage in conforming style, of C20. Lean to porch to rear with a parapet; wide heavily moulded 4-centred entrance arch with a central carved boss, moulded jaabs, adjacent a gargoyle, pointed arch inner door opening, 4 panelled door in a gothick style. Some co-eval interior features. Room to rear of ground floor with 3 heavily moulded cambered ceiling beams with elaborate central bosses believed to be reused from the roof of the North aisle of the church of St Mary, East Brent (qv); probably C15. Part of the entrance arch to the rear of the building and the gargoyle may also be of this late,

Listing NGR: ST3679952173