Brunger House
BRUNGER HOUSE
TENTERDEN, KENT
Brunger House is owned by Simon & Jo
Cottam and provides a selection of beautiful
accommodation for visitors to Kent & East
Sussex.
With origins dating back to circa 1540, Brunger
House is Grade II listed, and is of both
architectural and historic interest. It is a noted
house locally featuring in the definitive work
on English brickwork and is understood to
have been the Dower House to Hales Place.
The stunning exterior is of roseate brick
elevations beneath a Kent peg tiled roof and crow step gables and catslide to
rear and the unusual crow step brick design repeated on the attractive front
porch The windows have mainly diamond shaped leaded light panes with
some set into arched brick mullioned surrounds.
The interior is equally stunning and blessed with some of the finest period
features thus confirming the venerable age of this house. There are a wealth
of exposed beams and wall timbers, exceptional oak joinery such as wide
floorboards, staircases and broad plank latch doors, brick arches, some fitted
with arch-top oak doors and fine oak wall panelling, to name but a few. There
are also a number of massive inglenook fireplaces with oak bressummer
beams.
Brunger House was formerly known as Brungar Farmhouse and features in
the book ‘Timber & Brick Building in Kent’ by Kenneth Gravett (1971); “Crow-
Stepped gables are found on a group of buildings in Tenterden, all dated by
Lloyd to the period 1530-1540, although it is possible they are a little later.
Brungar Farm is entirely in brick with one stepped gable, moulded brick
windows and a different gable to the porch. Although the brickwork is,
correctly English Bond, the windows have been altered along the front and it
is possible that this house was once partly timber-framed like Bax Farm, or
even an earlier timbered house reconstructed”.
The Master Bedroom retains some of the original plaster that has been
framed with artwork detailing the initials EH, dated 1613, reputedly a
reference to Edward Hales, son of John Hales, MP & Baron of the Exchequer.
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