Building record 0016401000 - PUTTENHAM PLACE FARM

Dimensions - Length 0022 m Width 0010
Plan Form - H SHAPED
C15 OR C16 CORE WITH ADDITIONS ENCASED IN C18 & LATER BRICK, WITH SOME EXPOSED TIMBER FRAMING, BOTH INSIDE & OUTSIDE. FIRST FLOOR BAND COURSE OF BLACK VITRIFIED BRICK (B2-3). PROBABLY BUILT BY THE PUTTENHAM FAMILY, & MAY HAVE BEEN THE MANOR HOUSE (B1).
LOCATION (B4).
A visit by the Vernacular Architecture Group led to a building survey which noted that the house is a two-bay hall (8.2m x 6.3m) flanked at the N end by a solar wing, jettied and of one build with the hall. Mortices in the S principals suggest an in-line bay, now replaced by another much wider transverse wing. There are padstones under (or beside) each principal post. The S wing was turned into a double pile in 1700s by a parallel range which formerly had Dutch gables. The article includes a synposis of ownership. The Puttenham family having been descended from the de Turvilles who held Penn in the 12th century in the Honour of Leicester. In 1305, Roger De Puttenhamm held the manors of Penn and Puttenham. His grandson, Robert (born c. 1370), made a wealthy marriage which is believed allowed the Manor House to be built. The manors were split amongst 3 sons and eventually the house was sold to a Thomas Butterfield in 1595. In 1692 the house was licensed as a meeting house. It is believed that whilst in the ownership of the Butterfield family the chamber over the hall, the axial stack and the S wing were inserted. The house had become a principal farm as part of Lord Howe's estate by the mid 1700s (B5).