Description

TL 1922 ST PAUL'S WALDEN EAST HALL

11/127 Little Easthall Farm

GV II

Farmhouse, now a private house. C16 or earlier open hall house; addition
of lower S bay, insertion of floor and chimney, and rebuilding roof
c.1600; N end early C18; brick front and ends mid C18. Timber frame on
high brick sill roughcast, front and ends red brick chequered with blue
headers. Steep old red tile roof with rear catslide over stair and
outshut, and hip at N end. An unusual 2-bays open hall house with
conversion c.1600 to a lobby-entry, internal chimney plan 3-cells house
with stair tower and outshut under catslide to rear of stack. A long
2-storeys house facing E with plat-band and eaves cornice, and
1½-storeys S bay. 2 2-light casement windows to 1st floor and 4 to
ground floor with small panes and segmental arches to ground floor.
Large central chimney with 3 conjoined diagonal shafts and extra flue at
S. Projecting S gable chimney and front lateral chimney to N end part
now capped off below roof. Canted bay window on N end with 3-light
casement window over. Interior has cambered tie-beams of large
scantling, that of open truss on S face of chimney deeply chamfered and
stopped with 3 peg holes for former large brace and peg near top for
queen-post or strut of a side-purlin roof. Tie-beam dark coloured
presumably from open fire, distinct from other timbers. Later truss on N
face of chimney with straight wind-brace. Inserted chimney of narrow
brick has wide back-to-back floor on chamfered axial beam in room to S
of chimney with chamfered and stopped joists. Rougher joists on axial
beam in S bay with new joints in possible stair position in SW corner.
Present stair rises from main room in space taken from S bay. (RCHM
Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL1984322631

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471462

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)