Description

SU 5258 KINGSCLERE SWAN STREET SU 5259 13/58 No 20

II*

Late C14, C16, C18. A timber-framed 2-bay medieval hall, with a 2-bay cross-wing (solar above buttery) at the north side and a bay to the south side (now modern). The front (east) of the last date lies forward of the frame, with 2 storeys, 4 windows. Tile roof, hipped with lowered eaves at each end, brick dentil eaves. Painted brickwork in Flemish bond, cambered ground floor openings, cement plinth. Casements, half-glazed door in a solid frame, with a moulded canopy on brckets. At the south side, the ground-floor wallng has been replaced by a modern section on either side of a garage entrance. Within, there is an almost complete and massive frame, the large beam above the centre of the hall has fragmentary remains of wide moulded arch braces and at the centre is a carved head; above it is an arch-braced collar; part of the arched frame of a doorway to the buttery remains. A massive chimney-breast was inserted at the time of making the first floor (of wide boards) within the hall. At the rear is a cast iron Gothic casement to an upper floor, and a modern rear extension.

Listing NGR: SU5247358552

External Links

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