Description

PREES C.P. CHURCH STREET SJ 5433-5533 (north side) 14/57 Prees Hall (formerly - listed as The Hall) 28.10.60 GV II

Country house, now derelict. Early C18 incorporating parts of a C17 building; later additions and alterations. Red brick encapsulating timber frame; hipped plain tile roof (cladding now removed) to main block with hipped slate roofs to flanking pavilions; ridge and end stacks. 2 storeys; main block of 7 bays connected by one-bay links to flanking pavilion-like wings. Main block: 7-window front, 3 bays to centre deeply recessed under pilastered pediment flush with main wall; 4-paned sashes with gauged heads and roundel to pediment. Central 6-panel door in plain moulded doorcase. Wooden moulded eaves cornice carried up around pediment and moulded wooden capitals to pilasters flanking central recess. One-bay links to left and right, former with 4-paned sash to ground floor, glazing bar sash to first floor and wooden floor band, latter with blocked window on each floor. West pavilion with stone floor band to front has tripartite sash window with blocked round-headed arch above (formerly forming a Venetian window) and a Diocletian window to semi-basement. East pavilion also has the infilled arch of a Venetian window above the floor band and an inserted 2-light late C19 pedimented window below. Rear elevation: 5 windows to main block; 2 glazing bar sashes to left and three 4-paned sashes to right on first floor, 3 tall glazing bar sashes in pilastered frames to left and two 4-paned sashes to right on ground floor. East pavilion has prominent late C19 canted bay window to ground floor and 2 infilled windows to first floor. West pavilion obscured by contemporary stable block (q.v.) attached to late C19 addition to main block. Interior: in dangerous condition at time of resurvey (January 1986) but noted as having curved open-well staircase with stick balusters and carved open string to right of entrance. Ground-floor room of east pavilion has late C19 panelling and frieze. Centre of main block incorporates at least 3 collar and tie beam roof trusses of a C17 house along with substantial sections of contemporary close-studded wall. Birthplace in 1772 of Rowland Hill, first Viscount Hill, military commander under Wellington at Waterloo. B.O.E. p.231.

Listing NGR: SJ5562433544

External Links

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