Description

TL 56 SE BOTTISHAM TUNBRIDGE LANE
(North Side)

4/27 Bottisham Hall

II

Country house built 1797 for Rev G L Jenyns possibly by Charles
Humfrey. Grey brick with low pitch, hipped roofs of slate, with
boarded eaves and boxed guttering. Ridge stacks. U-plan, with
later service wings at rear. Two storeys. The principal
elevation is to the South and is in three bays, including the
projecting, half-round entrance bay. Semi-circular headed arch
to the doorway with half-glazed, double doors and a fanlight
with radial glazing bars. The flanking, recessed hung sashes to
this bay are of twelve panes. Three similar windows at first
floor have cast-iron balconettes. The two outer bays have, at
ground floor, semi-circular arches to recessed window bays, each
with a hung sash of fifteen panes in a flat, gauged brick arch.
The side elevation to the garden is in seven bays, with similar
fenestration and hung sashes of fifteen panes at ground floor.
one window retains its original pelmet. Inside, the hall is
approximately oval in plan with two round headed niches in the
corners. The two principal rooms flanking the hall have
original, plaster mouldings and fireplaces in white marble.
There is a cantilevered, open-string staircase with a curtail
and square balusters leading up to a landing with a screen of
Ionic columns. Charles Humfrey also designed the Vicarage at
Swaffham Bulbeck.

R.C.H.M. (North East Cambs.), p6, mon (4)
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p305

Listing NGR: TL5514161644

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Bottisham Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17511193

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