Description

TQ 04NW WONERSH C.P. LITTLEFORD LANE
Shamley Green
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The Hallams
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II

Country House. 1894-5 by Richard Norman Shaw for Charles Durant Hodgson, in
Vernacular style. Brick below tile hung above with some half-timbered gables
and entrance--porch with colourwashed roughcast infilling. Plain tiled roofs.
Two storeys and attics to left under hipped 5-light dormer. Front offset
ribbed stack with corbelled top. End stack to left and stacks to left and
right of porch. Irregular leaded fenestration to first floor left, six windows.
Three windows on first floor to right, some with hexagonal glazing. Stone
mullioned window with decorated glazing to ground floor right. Large wood
framed, mullioned and transomed,oriel type angle bay to right with hexagonal
glazing. Large gabled porch to centre with one 5-light diamond-pane attic
window, two 4-light windows to first floor and diagonal bracing on frame.
First floor of porch jettied. Arched doors with tracery panels. Hip-roofed
single storey service wing to right projecting with flat dormer and two ground
floor windows. Garden front - two half-timbered gables tile hung between and
below with canted courses over the ground floor. Stone dressed casement
fenestration with decorative glazing. Crowstepped stack to right.
Interior:- Great Hall, with wood block floor also serving as entrance.
Screens passage to end of three bays, the upper part built as a gallery with
panelled balustrades. Three bay crown post roof extending over the gallery.
Leaded angle bay window, barrel vault over the gallery and large fireplace to
one wall. The Hallams is Shaw's last medieval hall plan house.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.295.
ANDREW SAINT: RICHARD NORMAN SHAW (1982) ed. pp. 82, 88, 103, 111, 147, 243,
312, 331, 434, 446, 457
Ills - 72, 76 and 92.

Listing NGR: TQ0380945408

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26534188

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Recommended Books

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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas