Description

RICKINGHALL SUPERIOR THE STREET.(SOUTH EAST
TM 0475
SIDE)
6/151 Hall House Cottage and
- This-ll-Dew
GV
II
House, latterly 3 and now 2 dwellings. c.1500, floor and stack inserted early
C17, extended and altered C19 and C20. Timber frame, plastered and roughcast.
Thatched roofs. Originally 5 bays with a 2 bay open hall, storeyed service
bay and 2 storeyed parlour bays; stack inserted in lower parlour bay, service
wing added to rear in C19, parlour end extended C20, now a large L on plan.
All 1 storey and attic. Steps up to an entrance to right into hall, a
recessed 3 panelled door, a second door to left into C20 addition, scattered 1
and 2-light casements; to right into solar over service bay an original 3-
light square mullioned window, a 2-light glazing bar dormer over hall, 2 C20
2-light dormers to left. Inserted ridge stack to right of centre has 2
conjoined hexagonal shafts. Right end is half hipped over an exposed single
diamond mullioned opening and a 2-light casement. To rear a cross entry door
and a restored 2-light diamond mullioned window opening. Altered lower
service wing to rear right is clay lump or timber frame. Interior: 2 service
doorways with chamfered surrounds, a hollow moulded 4-centred arched head with
foliate carved spandrels, possibly reused; service bay stop chamfered axial
binding beam. Hall has tension bracing in walls, traces of original 6-light
square mullioned windows, open truss posts had shafts, inserted stop chamfered
storey posts to a bar stop chamfered cross axial binding beam, stop chamfered
joists; reused fireplace bressumer with hollow and roll moulds, Tudor flower
brattishing, upper embattled brattishing. Solar end wall has reverse curved
arched braces. Hall chamber arched bracing in front wall, open truss stop
chamfered cambered tie beam, now cut, cruciform crown post, broached base, no
cap, 4-centred arched braces to collar purlin, smoke blackened rafters.
Parlour bays: frame is largely concealed, tension bracing in walling, a stop
chamfered cross axial binding beam, a 4-light diamond mullioned window to
rear, closed truss crown post survives at original left end.

Listing NGR: TM0408075215

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534067

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)