Description

1.
5272 SMARDEN WATER LANE
The Cloth Hall
(formerly listed as
Turk Farmhouse or
The Cloth Hall)
TQ 8742 23/71

II*

2.
C15 timber-framed and close-studded building with plaster infilling, part of
the ground floor rebuilt in red brick, the north-west end of the first floor
and part of the centre oversailing on the protruding end of the floor joists
and brackets. Tiled roof. Casement windows with diamond-paned or small square
leaded panes. Blocked 4-centred wooden doorway. Iron-studded door, with peep-hole
to the south-east of this. Two storeys. Five windows. Brick chimney breast
with offsets on the south-east wall. North-west front has dragon post and
blocked double window. The first floor of the north-west front oversails
on the protruding ends of the floor joists and brackets, with a loft door in
the centre of it approached by an outside ladder. Above is a second loft
door with a projecting hip over it, from which is suspended a hoist with a
heavy iron hook. C16 L-addition at north-west corner. Crown post roof.

Listing NGR: TQ8788742357

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556197

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)