Description

CARLTON HUSTHWAITE VILLAGE STREET
SE 4876-4976
(north side)
10/26
The Old Hall
17.5.60
GV II*

Manor house. Late C17, probably c.1685. Brick in English garden wall bond, C20
pantile roofs. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and loft, 5 bays. Rubble plinth
with chamfered ashlar offset. Central hay projects slightly, and has window in
former door opening on ground floor. C20 16-pane sash windows, replacing case-
ments, with torus-shaped brick sills and flat arches. Pronounced first-floor
band with hollow-moulding to base and ogee-moulding to top. C20 modillion
cornice replacing cornice of scalloped brickwork. M-shaped roof, the kneelers
and gable coping renewed. Left return: C20 French window to right; 8-pane
sashes in gables; others 16-pane sashes. Stacks rise from roof valley. Right
return: C20 entrance, replacing original kitchen door; C20 single-storey exten-
sion to rear right not of special interest. Interior: original front door gave
onto central hall, with deep bolection mouldings to softwood fireplace and door-
way to parlour to left, oak archway with bolection frieze and keystone to rear
stairs hall; parlour has oak bolection wall panelling and matching oak bolection
chimneypiece with C18 Carron cast-iron grate, with overmantel and flanking
2-panel doors with H-hinges; open-well staircase in oak with thick turned
balusters with bulb on ball, knob pendant finials and acanthus scroll on console
on bottom newel; first-floor room to front left has deep bolection fireplace
matching that in hall; staircase to second floor has splat balusters; roof
trusses are collared principal rafter, and the timbers have been reused. The
internal fittings in this house are of unusually high quality.

Listing NGR: SE4977476721

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• The Old Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17535304

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
• 
  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback