Description

TL 85 NW REDE HAMKEDEN ROAD

5/114 Pykards Hall

II

House, mid-C15 with alterations of mid C16, late C17 and c.1970 1½ storeys
and attics. Timber-framed and rendered, partly encased in painted brick.
Plaintiled roof with gabled casement dormers, gable and axial chimneys of red
brick. C20 casements. C20 gabled plaintiled entrance porch with boarded door.
A mid-C15 3-cell open hall house, greatly altered; hall of 2 bays of 10' and
14'. Smoke-blackened crown-post roof almost complete. Damaged open truss has
part of steeply-cambered tie-beam with moulded soffit; a bowtel within great
casement and an ogee; arch-braces concealed or missing; octagonal crownpost,
without mouldings, but with 4-way archbraces, and in addition, rising braces
from the tie-beam. The closed trusses at each end have rising braces to crown-
studs. Over the parlour end, now altered or rebuilt, remains of a hipped end
with smoke-gablet. One cross-passage entrance doorway with 4-centred head
survives, now opening into early C18 wing of 1 bay. First floor inserted into
hall and chimney built backing onto cross-passage C16. Parlour end extended
southwards late C17, with further 2-cell cross-wing having central chimney-bay
and clasped purlin roof. The C15 service end demolished and rebuilt longer,
late C17 or early C18. Altered c.1970.

Listing NGR: TL8045755434

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26500726

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  For the Record
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)