Description

SOUTHOLT
TM 26 NW
5/57 Southolt Hall
- II
Manor farmhouse. Early C17. A 3-cell main range with service range to north
forming T-shape plan. Timber framed and plastered. Some underbuilding in red
brick at service end. Roof over main range is pantiled to the front and
plaintiled to rear; it is hipped over the service end. Plaintiles to service
wing. 2 storeys with attic to main range. 3 windows, C19 casements with
small panes. Lobby entrance: a small gabled porch of colourwashed brick, the
door not visible. A further doorway to left with half-glazed door. Internal
stack with plain oblong shaft. Interior largely unaltered since C19. Most of
the structure in main range is concealed. On the upper floor, axial bridging
beams with ogee stop-chamfers and in 2 rooms, plain square joists. Newel
stairs, the attic flight with a carved finial to the newel post and original
entrance door. 3-bay, 3-cell service range, the stack a C19 insertion. Some
plain studding on the upper floor, the end room with blocked C17 full-height
windows with moulded square mullions, evidently superseding shallower diamond-
mullioned windows. Plain joists, set flat, on both floors. Both the dairy
and scullery have brick floors and C19 fittings unusually complete. The roofs
have clasped and butt purlins, that over the main range with trimming for
dormers.

Listing NGR: TM2053369968

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26283785

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)