Description

STOKE ASH CHURCH LANE TM 17 SW 1/80 Hall Farmhouse -

-- II Farmhouse. Circa 1600. Timber framed and plastered, roof of concrete pantiles. A single long 3-cell range, the right (parlour) cell originally in the form of a cross-wing. 2 storeys and attic. 5 windows, casements with horizontal glazing bars. Early C19 doorway: broad architrave, bracketed cornice; 6-panel raised and fielded door. Against left gable end is a heavy stack with axial shaft and 4 offsets to base. At rear, heating the hall cell, a good external stack with 2 detached octagonal shafts on moulded bases, the caps missing. A further stack against the rear wall, heating the parlour cell, has been rendered and reduced in height. One-storey kitchen addition on left gable end. Interior. Parlour, unmodernised and latterly used as a service room, has some heavy studding with ovolo-moulded mullioned windows and a good ceiling with ovolo-moulded main beam and a single roll moulding to joists. Remainder of timbers very largely concealed. In entrance hall is an early C19 recess: keyed segmental head with turned drop-finial, reeded jambs with lion's head masks. Upper floor and roof not examined.

Listing NGR: TM1155970525

External Links

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