Description

TL 79 SE
7/5

DIDLINGTON
West Hall

II*

House. C16 with C17 and C18 additions.
Close-studded timber frame (mainly rendered over) and a returned masonry south gable-end with ashlar quoins. Colourwashed brick and flint C17 addition. Coursed clunch C18 addition. Pantile roofs. Primitive block with a C17 side addition to which an C18 block was added at right angles forming an L plan. Primitive wing of 2 storeys with attic. Both facades jettied with a moulded bressumer to east (entrance) facade only. Off-centre late C18 front door with 3 contemporary sash windows with glazing bars to ground floor. First floor with several blocked original hollow-chamfered mullion windows: one of 2 lights; 2 of 2 lights and one of 3 lights with an adjoining, apparently contemporary, taller 2-light mullion and transom window. 3 gabled dormers with shaped barge boards. South gable-end with stack. One original 2-light hollow-chamfered mullion window beneath a rectangular hood mould on eastern return, 3 modern openings on gable-end itself. C17 lean-to stair outshut to west with a 3-light C18 window with metal casement.
Rear facade with one ground floor C18 3-light mullion and transom window with metal casements. C20 flat-roofed single-storeyed extension. Apparent close-studding to first floor and small section of ground floor. 3 blocked original windows with mullions not visible. One late C19 sash window, one modern 2-light window with metal casements. C17 staged external stack. Gable-end chimney shaft rebuilt. C17 side extension of 2 storeys with a later shallow pitched roof retaining, however, the steeply pitched gable parapet. 2 C18 ground floor mullion and transom windows to west: of 2 and 3 lights with metal casements. 3 modern first floor windows (one blocked). 3 2-light casements and one 2-light diamond mullion window to east. Gable-end stack.
C18 wing not of special interest.
Interior. Primitive wing with roll and hollow roll moulded bridging joists. Fine C17 dog's leg stair with shaped board balusters. One C17 chamfered arched fireplace to first floor. One C18 duck's nest fire grate at first floor. Clasped purlin roof with inserted floor/ceiling. C17 side addition with an extraordinarily elaborate late-Medieval carved bridging joist with deeply undercut helical leaf patterns. Belongs to a set of 3 transverse bridging joists, the C17 addition clearly having been designed to accommodate them. Many replaced common joists.
This building is also in Mundford parish.

Listing NGR: TL7977294013

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553656

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (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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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy