Description

TR 03 NW MERSHAM LAWS LANE
(east side)

6/143 Stonelees

27.11.57 II*

House. C15, rebuilt C16. Timber framed and exposed panelled framing
on ground floor with red brick infill, and close-studding on 1st
floor with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof. Cross-passage plan
of 4 bays with smoke bay, incorporating service wing of earlier hall
house. Two storeys.on plinth, with continuous jetty on brackets, that
to end right bay separately framed with renewed dragon post. Hipped
roof with gablets and stack cluster to left. Three light mullioned
windows to left and oriel to right with enriched pendant frame (C20?).
Four mullioned upper chamber windows to centre right. Leaded C20
mullioned wooden casements to ground floor. Four centred arched
doorway with enriched spandrels to centre right with C16 15 panelled
door. The end right bay is framed entirely separately from the rest
of the building, the main posts to right of door being duplicated,
the 2 ranges literally strapped together with bifurcated iron ties.
Interior: 2 depressed arched doorways to service wing with fernleaf-
enriched spandrels and with moulded ship-lap doors. Double bead and
fillet moulded cross-beamed ceiling, with beaded dais beam, and 2
depressed arched doors to right (rear) of stack, leading to parlour
and stair, both with rose-enriched spandrels. Four centred arched
wooden chimney bressumer with thistle and fernleaf and banded
enrichment. Parlour with beaded beams and joists. Upper floor with
enrichea spandrels to doors, enriched chimney bresummer. Roof with
cambered chamfered tie beams (originally with crown posts?). Stack
inserted into smoke bay. Duplicated framing to end bay (the main
range represents a C16 rebuild of earlier hall and parlour wing which
the sevice end still survives).

Listing NGR: TR0450837281

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17556666

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