Building record 1595800000 - The Potters Arms, Winchmore Hill

The Potters Arms public house. The public bar is the ground floor of the oldest part of this house; a two bay 1 1/2 storey building with straight wind-braces and a stack in the eastern long wall. All but one corner of the ground floor framing has been replaced by brick. The ground floor area is 13' x 18' 10" (4 x 5.8 m). The ground floor, now one room, was originally divided in two (hall/kitchen and unheated parlour) by a wattle-and-daub partition: mortices for studs and sockets for staves can be seen in the soffit of the midrail. An early seventeenth century date is indicated.
A conveyance of 1604 relating to this property refers to the house as being 'lately built'. The property was at this time known as Hillfields, or alternatively Sansums, the latter probably deriving from Samson deChampneys, who was a Winchmore Hill freeholder in 1275. The purchaser was George Fryer, a Penn man, who almost at once resold to Thomas Bovingdon, a younger son of the family that held the Glory, in Penn. Thomas, however, seems not to have lived there for long, if at all; on his death in 1643 it was let to Robert Nash, whose father Thomas owned 'Nash's'. Robert died in 1668, leaving no family. Sansums was left to Thomas's daughter Mary, who, as Mary Briggs, was living in Chertsey when in 1680 she sold to her first cousin William Bovingdon. [Further details, plan & sections] (B1).
This record includes National Record of the Historic Environment Information provided by Historic England on 4 June 2025 licensed under the Open Government Licence (B2).