PROGRAMME of EVENTS for JULY to DECEMBER 2010

Please note that visits to private houses are limited to members of the group.
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Saturday 24th July 2010 - Library Day, Dunsfold

Chennells, The Green, Dunsfold GU8 4NB (TQ 0084 3713)
Any time between 11:00 and 14:00. Hosted by our librarian Liz Gibson and her husband Martin.
This is our usual very pleasant social occasion with all the books to look at.
Chennells itself is of much interest, a central chimney house with a fine display of apotropaic (spiritual protection)
marks and carpenter’s marks.
Stylistic evidence suggested a date of c 1600. Liz thought about 1580. The dendro date came out as 1576!
By all means bring food and drink for a picnic inside or out.
Directions: Chennells is at the north end of Dunsfold Green, on the eastern side of the road.
Coming from the north, it is the first house (opposite Griggs Meadow) after the sign for Dunsfold and the 40mph sign.
Two short, white concrete posts mark the drive. If the drive is full, park on the road or, carefully, on the common.

Saturday 11th September 2010 - Lingfield

1 Oat Barns, Newchapel Road, Lingfield, RH7 6BJ (TQ 374 429)
Visit at 11:00 by kind permission of DBRG Member Robert Routledge and his wife Pat.
Oat Barns is a four-bay open-hall house with very rare features: saltire bracing, gallery evidence and
self-contained ‘widow’s quarters’ (with no interconnection!).
The roof was originally crown posted.
Directions: best approached from the Mormon roundabout where the B2028 leads off from the A22.
Oat Barns is in a mile on the left - look out for the sign.

2 Raby’s Farmhouse, Newchapel Road, Lingfield, RH7 6LE (TQ 366 424)
14:00 by kind permission of Mr Jon Butler.
Raby’s is still to be researched but is an end-jetty house with long passing braces - so will certainly be medieval and could be early.
Directions: almost back to the Mormon Roundabout, Raby’s is on the left, opposite the Blacksmith’s Head (a good place for lunch).
Limited to 22 places - booking opens 1 September 2010

Saturday 2nd October 2010 - Members’ Day at Nutfield

1 The Inn on the Pond, Nutfield Marsh Road, Nutfield, RH1 4EU (TQ 303 515)
Meet at 11:00 This is our gathering point for two visits across the road. The cottages are too small for our numbers, which will be unlimited as it is Members’ Day.
So we shall have coffee and biscuits (£2.50 charge), organise ourselves into smaller groups and work a sort of shift system for the visits.

Leather Bottle is one of the earliest chimney houses we have found which has been dendro-dated to 1550. It has a number of interesting features
including a circular opening down to the cross passage. As a former ale house, this opening was perhaps used for barrels.
The roof space is very fine - with stairs and carpets for accessibility!
Charman Cottage was, we believe, its detached kitchen! It dates to 1559 and there is a connection through a will (DBRG News June 2009, p23).
It is the best detached kitchen that we have found in Surrey.
There are only two bays in total. The ground floor was one single room, open to the roof in one of the bays (a ‘half-floored hall’).

For lunch, we are of course welcome to stay at the pub. They have a good selection of lunch-time meals.
There is no limit on numbers but let me know by September 25th to enable me to warn the pub.
Directions: about a mile north of Nutfield, Church Hill becomes Nutfield Marsh Road. The pub is on the left.
Alternatively, the hall (see below) will be open from 13:00 for your sandwiches.

There being no suitable halls in Nutfield, we need to make the short trip to Bletchingley.

2 Bletchingley Community Centre, 78B High St, Bletchingley RH1 4PA
Seated for 14:30. Member’s lecturettes.

Our traditional collection of 15 minute talks from our members about what they are doing.
Volunteers or suggestions welcome, anything to do with history or buildings.
We conclude with tea, finishing by 16:30.
Directions: Return to the A25, turn left and Bletchingley is around a mile down the road.
The Community Centre is behind the north side of the High Street, next to the Village Hall, east of the Lawrence Auction Rooms.
Entrance to the car park is at the rear of these buildings and is signed to the Village Hall.

Saturday 6th November 2010 - Annual Lecture

The Upper Hall, Shalford Village Halls, Kings Road, Shalford GU4 8JA (TQ 005 469)
Seated for 14.30. Note the change of date.
Guests welcome. Contribution of £2 towards refreshments and hall hire requested (non-members £5).

Speaker:

Peter comes to us warmly recommended. He is an award-winning steeplejack and a raconteur rather than a lecturer. He is generously charging no fee, but we shall be making a donation to his local Parkinson’s Disease Group.

Directions: the halls are at the east end of Shalford Green, sign posted from the A248, about 400m from the A281.

Saturday 4th December 2010 - Christmas Lunch

Chennells, The Green, Dunsfold GU8 4NB (NGR TQ 0084 3713)
12.30. Hosted by our librarian Liz Gardiner and her husband Martin.

We return to Chennells (see Library Day at the head of this note) with thanks to Liz and Martin. £7 per head.

Numbers limited to 24. Send a cheque to me, payable to DBRG, no later than November 27th.

A date for your diary. The first Winter Workshop next year is fixed for Thursday 13th January 2011 at 7.30 for 8.00 at Shalford Village Halls. Our tutor will be Catherine Ferguson and her subject “The Hearth Tax”. She will tell us the background to the Hearth Tax and its relevance to social history studies as well as building research.

We welcome ideas for future visits.
If you have any suggestions, please contact:
Rod Wild Tel: 01483-232767 or by

©DBRG 8 July 2010